Ἄλλως
otherwise
Translated by Jennifer Benedict26 May 2000Vetting: high8 revisions
Translation
[Meaning] vainly.
"I was [or: they were] toiling otherwise."1
"I was [or: they were] toiling otherwise."1
Greek original · Adler’s text
Ἄλλως· ματαίως. ἐπόνουν δὲ ἄλλως.
Betacode
*)/allws: matai/ws. e)po/noun de\ a)/llws.
Notes (1)
- cf. Hesychius s.v., Etymologicum Magnum 68.37, and a scholion on Aristophanes, Acharnians 114 (where the headword occurs: web address 1).↩
cf. already alpha 1318, alpha 1395, and again alpha 1398.- 1Quotation unidentifiable. (The verb is either first person singular or third person plural; cf. epsilon 2805.)
External resources
- Web address 1 perseus.tufts.edu
Linked from4 entries
- α1395Ἄλλωςotherwise[Meaning] in vain, or particularly, or after another fashion. Also found is thna/llws with the article, and a)/llws te. "Nor did the prayers and the hostile curses against the god slip otherwise."
- α1398Ἄλλωςotherwise"[He] supposing that this was not possible, if [it is] otherwise, or if it should seem possible, that it would be advantageous to him." Meaning after another fashion, or in vain, or especially. And elsewhere:…
- α1399Ἄλλως ᾄδειςyou are singing for nothing[sc. A proverbial saying] in reference to those toiling in vain.
- α1945Ἀναλώθησανthey were spent[Used] with an accusative. [Meaning] they were made to vanish. "For the prayers were not spent in vain. For some beast comes upon them with a greater triumph." Also [sc. attested are] a)na/lwsa ["I spent"] and…
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