Ἄναντες
steep
Translated by Jennifer Benedict13 May 2001Vetting: high5 revisions
Translation
[Meaning something] leading-upwards.1
Anantes ["steep"] and prosantes ["uphill"]2 are the same thing. And if something [is] steep, this thing [is] also uphill, not yet turning back again. For what is uphill [is] precipitous and not yielding, not receptive of one who wants to go up. The opposite of steep and uphill [is] katantes ["downhill"]. And we call sweet and joyful things easy and simple, but painful things [we call] steep and arduous and forbidding.3
Also [sc. attested is the masculine]a)na/nths , [meaning] the road difficult to walk. And it declines into -ous [in the genitive].
Anantes ["steep"] and prosantes ["uphill"]2 are the same thing. And if something [is] steep, this thing [is] also uphill, not yet turning back again. For what is uphill [is] precipitous and not yielding, not receptive of one who wants to go up. The opposite of steep and uphill [is] katantes ["downhill"]. And we call sweet and joyful things easy and simple, but painful things [we call] steep and arduous and forbidding.3
Also [sc. attested is the masculine]