Ἄληθες
truly
Translated by Jennifer Benedict6 May 2000Vetting: high11 revisions
Translation
Meaning really.1
They think it right to give the first [syllable] an acute accent, when what is said in a question means [something like] this, such as "really, truly."2
"Truly, o child of the rustic goddess?" Aeschylus says to Euripides, "do you [call] me these things, o gossip-collector, and beggar-maker, and rag-stitcher?"3
But "truth" [is] the opposite of falsehood.4
"Truth is the leader of both divine and human things."5
They think it right to give the first [syllable] an acute accent, when what is said in a question means [something like] this, such as "really, truly."2
"Truly, o child of the rustic goddess?" Aeschylus says to Euripides, "do you [call] me these things, o gossip-collector, and beggar-maker, and rag-stitcher?"3
But "truth" [is] the opposite of falsehood.4
"Truth is the leader of both divine and human things."5