Ἀστάθμητον
uncertain
Translated by Jennifer Benedict7 Mar 2002Vetting: high6 revisions
Translation
"[They] not suspecting the obscurity and uncertainty of their fortune."1
Also [sc. attested is the masculine]a)sta/qmhtos , [meaning someone who is] un-level, unstable.2
"And with respect to other [sc. kinds of] excellence this man was, so to speak, uncertain."3
"They endured the sea on account of necessity, reckoning that in their current constraint the uncertainty of that element offered them more security than the land."4
And to speak poetically, "there will be a day when sacred Ilios will be destroyed." And taking account, in saying this, of the uncertainty of men.5
Also6 [sc. attested is the superlative]a)staqmhto/taton ["most/very uncertain"], concerning which no one would be able to guess or estimate, what at some point might be known or what might happen. Demosthenes in [his speech On] the Dishonest Embassy [uses this word].7
Also [sc. attested is the masculine]
"And with respect to other [sc. kinds of] excellence this man was, so to speak, uncertain."3
"They endured the sea on account of necessity, reckoning that in their current constraint the uncertainty of that element offered them more security than the land."4
And to speak poetically, "there will be a day when sacred Ilios will be destroyed." And taking account, in saying this, of the uncertainty of men.5
Also6 [sc. attested is the superlative]