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μὴ εἶναι βασιλικὴν ἀτραπὸν ἐπὶ γεωμετρίαν.
by pjungwir 9y ago
μὴ εἶναι βασιλικὴν ἀτραπὸν ἐπὶ γεωμετρίαν.
- ILikeConemowk 9y agoBackground and alleged author since my parent failed to provide both: There is no royal road to geometry. (μή εἶναι βασιλικήν ατραπόν επί γεωμετρίαν, Non est regia [inquit Euclides] ad Geometriam via) Reply given when the ruler Ptolemy I Soter asked Euclid if there was a shorter road to learning geometry than through Euclid's Elements. Proclus (412–485 AD) in Commentary on the First Book of Euclid's Elements as translated by Glenn R. Morrow (1970), p. 57. ἀτραπός "road, trail, track" here takes the more specific sense of "short cut". The Latin translation is by Francesco Barozzi, 1560) https://en.m.wikiquote.org/wik https://en.m.wikiquote.org/wik