Sounds are said to be imitations of what is meant, not of things. Thus it is not the significance of things which the words describe that has a certain power to do this or that, but it is the qualities and characteristics of sound. A man who pronounces a given spell in its native language can effect what the spell claims to accomplish. However, should he translate the spell into another language, it loses its power, because the magic attaches to the physical body of the sound and not to the pragmata. If then neither Sabaoth nor Adonai have any effect when translated into what they seem to mean in the Greek sound, so much the more would the names of Zeus be powerless when translated.
Stoic truth is a property of the lekton.
Searching for the meaning of words was the way to the logos of reality. Difference in essence is that the true is incorporeal, because it attaches to the proposition. Truth and true differ in constitution, because truth implies knowledge of a number of truths, while the true is something simple. They differ in meaning, because truth pertains to knowledge, while the true does not. Origen uses truth to refer to the reality of the mystery of the world of ideas, to what he considers the substantial character of the Logos and true reason as such.