Αττα
whichever, some
Translated by Catharine Roth13 Jan 2001Vetting: high13 revisions
Translation
Has four meanings.1 Meaning as many as or whichever in Antiphon, but meaning some or some kind of in Demosthenes in the Philippics.2 But sometimes atta is redundant.
In the speech On the Fraudulent Embassy Demosthenes used the expression as equivalent too(/sa ;3 one of the comic poets applied atta to number, another to time. *Atta [sc. means] tina/ ["some"] or a(/tina ["whichever"], or a few similar.
Antiphon usesa(/tta instead of a(/tina in the Defence of Murros: "for I had not suffered these things, which now I have suffered at this man's hands".4 And elsewhere: "for whatever things they see with their sight, men judge to be more reliable than those things for which the proof of truth has come in secrecy".5
Damascius [writes]: "Isidore concerned himself with some works of poetry, not as much as he was able, but as much as he had desire. He had very little appreciation of them, as they did not seize his soul, but reached only to his imagination and his tongue".6
The adverba)/te ["as"] has smooth breathing.7
In the speech On the Fraudulent Embassy Demosthenes used the expression as equivalent to
Antiphon uses
Damascius [writes]: "Isidore concerned himself with some works of poetry, not as much as he was able, but as much as he had desire. He had very little appreciation of them, as they did not seize his soul, but reached only to his imagination and his tongue".6
The adverb