I want to know how to say "Eleatic arguments" as well as how to say "Eleatistic arguments". Right now, all I can come up with for the former is "argumenta Eleatica", and I have no clue about the latter. Thanks in advance for your help!
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2I don't know what either of these terms mean or whether there is a canonical translation, but I would render the first one like you did and the second one as argumenta Eleatistica.– Joonas Ilmavirta ♦Commented Feb 25, 2017 at 13:05
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"Eleatica" indeed seems to be the correct way to refer to the "Eleatic school," founded by Parmenides.
This book includes on pg. 62 a section titled, De Secta Eleatica.
Although I can find no written examples in medieval or modern Latin of eleatistica (by which I presume you mean "Eleatic-imitating"), I think a convincing analogy can be made with the more common terms "Hellenic" (hellenica) and "Hellenistic" (hellenistica). The same transformation yields eleatistica.
You thus have:
Argumenta eleatica
and
Argumenta eleatistica
answered Feb 28, 2017 at 21:10
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For Modern Latin, this is undoubtedly correct, but have you checked out the textual issues with the ancient evidence? The passages referring to the Eleatics in Cicero appear corrupt.– cmw ♦Commented Feb 28, 2017 at 21:18
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@C.M.Weimer Even without the Cicero reference, the two others in this classical corpus search seem to support it. Either way, it would be a question of whether that word was used, not how it should be formed.– brianpckCommented Feb 28, 2017 at 21:38
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I'm not disputing the formation, I just found the confusion fascinating. I know at least the passage in Academica was corrected, I wonder if others show sign of corruption in the manuscripts.– cmw ♦Commented Feb 28, 2017 at 22:10