Ἔμφασις
impression
Translated by David Whitehead6 Apr 2007Vetting: high4 revisions
Translation
[Meaning] display.
Polybius [writes]: "this abuse and impressions no educated man would have proffered, nor even one selling his body in a brothel. But [Timaeus], in order to gain credence for his shameful words and the rest of his shamelessness has brought an additional falsehood against the man, adducing as his witness some worthless comic poet".1
Polybius [writes]: "this abuse and impressions no educated man would have proffered, nor even one selling his body in a brothel. But [Timaeus], in order to gain credence for his shameful words and the rest of his shamelessness has brought an additional falsehood against the man, adducing as his witness some worthless comic poet".1