TR4.1016 "Bǔt nów n'ěnfórce Ǐ mé nǎt ín shěwýngě TR4.1017 Hǒw the órdre ǒf cáusěs stánt; bǔt wél wǒot Í TR4.1018 Thǎt ít by̌hóvěth thát thě býfǎllýngě TR4.1019 Ǒf thýngěs wíst by̌fórě cértěynlý TR4.1020 Bě nécěssárǐe, ǎl séme ǐt nát thěrbý TR4.1021 Thǎt préscǐénce pǔt fálly̌nge nécěssáirě TR4.1022 Tǒ thýng tǒ cóme, ǎl fálle ǐt fóule ǒr fáirě.
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- Differences among the manuscripts and editions:
- English translations (Windeatt: 1998): But I do not trouble myself now with showing the order these causes stand in. Yet I well know that it is necessary that the happening of things foreknown certainly must be, although it does not seem to follow from that that foreknowledge makes necessary the occurrence of the thing to come, however it turns out, for good or ill.
- Japanese translations (Sasamoto: 2012): しかし今おれは原因の序列がどうなっているのか示すつもりはない。しかし次のことはよく分かっている、確実に予知された事は必ず生じるということを。もっとも、正邪いずれが生じようとも、次に来るべき事の予見が必ず生じるようには見えないけれども。
- Chinese translations (Fang: 1956): 我虽不追求因果的先后，我却明瞭这点，凡是预知之事必然产生，虽不论其是否因为预知而产生才成为必然。
Word Information
- Etymology: L&OF
- Addresser: Troilus
- Addressee: N/A
- Adjectives with which juxtaposed: N/A
- Counterpart in its source (Fil): N/A
- Noun(s) (NPs) modified: Others
- Attributive/ Predicative: predicative
Information in Previous Studies
- OED: Not quoted
- MED: Not quoted
- Commented in other previous works:
- Windeatt (2003): N/A
- Fisher (1989: 493): Be necessarie: is necessary
- Benson (1987): N/A
- Davis et al. (1979): 2. predetermined (s.v. necessarie, adj.)
- Donaldson (1975): N/A
- Baugh (1963): N/A
Possible Definitions
predetermined
Comments from the Editor
See my comment of ‘certain’ (adj., Tr4.1012).