. ‘Being’ (though inevitable in a modern language) is much too abstract a word for these ancient texts.
implies ‘motion, activity,’ and
is not a simple negation, but implies ‘completion, end’ (τελέω, τέλος), though not ‘cessation.’
Our modern acceptation of the word ‘perfect’ is often wrongly applied to
. We should think rather of such phrases as ‘annum perficere,’ ‘sole perfecto.’