The Greek Anthropocentric View of Man

( ov AoyLKOV V0Vr7dV, voi3 Ka E7rr L7r7/l)s 8EK8K dKV. Leo has borrowed this definition verbatim from the ninth-century(?) treatise of Meletius the Monk On the Constitution of Man. Meletius in his turn took the definition directly from the bishop Nemesius (early fifth century?), who, in his work On the Nature of Man, prefaces this formulation with the general statement rdV vOpwrov cptLov7ra, people define man. Gregory of Nyssa similarly attests the tralatitious character of the words: rT AoyLKOV TOOTO OOV d aV0W YOc VOU TE Kal f'7t&0ET0 6KTLKOV ELVaL Kal,