Ἄχρι
up to
Translated by Jennifer Benedict6 Jun 2001Vetting: high5 revisions
Translation
[Used] with a genitive.1 [sc. Also attested is] a)/xris , meaning me/xris ["as far as"], [meaning] until.2
There is alsoa)/xris meaning on the whole, altogether. And Homer [writes]: "the ruthless stone utterly destroyed the sinews and bones."3
Also [sc. attested is the phrase]a)/xri ko/rou ["up to one's limit"]. There was a proverb, [saying] that "that man is unfeeling up to his limit."4 Also [sc. attested is the phrase] "this man played the deceiver up to his limit."5
There is also
Also [sc. attested is the phrase]
Greek original · Adler’s text
Ἄχρι· γενικῇ. Ἄχρις, ἀντὶ τοῦ μέχρις, ἕως. ἔστι δὲ καὶ Ἄχρις, ἀντὶ τοῦ καθόλου, διόλου. καὶ Ὅμηρος· ἀμφοτέρω δὲ τένοντε καὶ ὀστέα λᾶας ἀναιδὴς ἄχρις ἀπηλλοίησε. καὶ Ἄχρι κόρου. παροιμία ἦν, ὅτι ἄχρι κόρου ἐκεῖνος ἀναίσθητός ἐστι. καὶ, οὗτος ἄχρι κόρου ἐφενάκισεν.
Betacode
*)/axri: genikh=|. *)/axris, a)nti\ tou= me/xris, e(/ws. e)/sti de\ kai\ *)/axris, a)nti\ tou= kaqo/lou, dio/lou. kai\ *(/omhros: a)mfote/rw de\ te/nonte kai\ o)ste/a la=as a)naidh\s a)/xris a)phlloi/hse. kai\ *)/axri ko/rou. paroimi/a h)=n, o(/ti a)/xri ko/rou e)kei=nos a)nai/sqhto/s e)sti. kai\, ou(=tos a)/xri ko/rou e)fena/kisen.
Notes (5)
- 1Likewise in the Etymologicum Gudianum. ↩
- 2Likewise or similarly in other lexica, including Apollonius' Homeric Lexicon, and cf. also the scholia to Homer, Iliad 4.522 (and 17.599); cf. next note. ↩
- 3Homer, Iliad 4.521-522 (web address 1 below), with scholion. ↩
- 4Zenobius 1.44; cf. Phrynichus, Praeparatio sophistica 50.4. ↩
- 5An approximation of Demosthenes 19.187 (web address 2). ↩
External resources
- Web address 1 perseus.tufts.edu
- Web address 2 perseus.tufts.edu
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Revision history5 revisions · last 9 Jan 2016
- tweaked links — Catharine Roth
- Revised — David Whitehead
- coding — Catharine Roth
- more keywords; betacode and other cosmetics — David Whitehead
- augmented notes and keywords; cosmetics — David Whitehead
- Translated — Jennifer Benedict