Associations to the word «Stephanus»

Wiktionary

STEPHANUS LETTER, noun. (Stephanus pagination) A standard reference letter (either , , , , or ) for a one-fifth–equal-part subdivision of a given section (denoted by the preceding Stephanus number) of a given Platonic dialogue.
STEPHANUS NUMBER, noun. (Stephanus pagination) A standard reference number for a section of a given Platonic dialogue, referring to a page in the 1578 translation of Plato’s dialogues by Henricus Stephanus.

Wise words

Language is a process of free creation; its laws and principles are fixed, but the manner in which the principles of generation are used is free and infinitely varied. Even the interpretation and use of words involves a process of free creation.
Noam Chomsky