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Ἐπ' ἐλάχιστον · very little, to a very little extent (ε 2043) · Suda

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Α Β Γ Δ Ε Ζ Η Θ Ι Κ Λ Μ Ν Ξ Ο Π Ρ Σ Τ Υ Φ Χ Ψ Ω

Near ε2043

ε2039spun for
ε2040washed over
ε2041was going wild, began to go wild
ε2042I extend over
ε2043very little, to a very little extent
ε2044(he/she) occupied, seized
ε2045they read
ε2046they were making noise at
ε2047reached

Suda/Ε epsilon/ε2043

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Ἐπ' ἐλάχιστον

very little, to a very little extent

Translated by Catharine Roth12 Feb 2004Vetting: high3 revisions

biography
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poetry

1 note · 33 words

Translation

[Meaning] not far, to a small degree. Damascius [writes]: "[Isidore] had very little appreciation of poetical works, as they did not seize his soul, but reached only to his imagination and his tongue."¹

Greek original · Adler’s text

Ἐπ' ἐλάχιστον· ἐπ' ὀλίγον, πρὸς βραχύ. Δαμάσκιος· εἶχε δὲ ἐπ' ἐλάχιστον τῆς πρὸς τὰ ποιητικὰ συμπαθείας, ἅτε οὐχ ἁπτόμενα τῆς ψυχῆς, ἀλλὰ μέχρι φαντασίας καὶ γλώττης ἱστάμενα.

Betacode

*)ep' e)la/xiston: e)p' o)li/gon, pro\s braxu/. *dama/skios: ei)=xe de\ e)p' e)la/xiston th=s pro\s ta\ poihtika\ sumpaqei/as, a(/te ou)x a(pto/mena th=s yuxh=s, a)lla\ me/xri fantasi/as kai\ glw/tths i(sta/mena.

Notes (1)

The headword idiom, adverbial, is probably extracted from the quotation given (though there are many alternatives, beginning with three in Thucydides).
1Damascius, Life of Isidore fr. 112 Zintzen (61 Asmus, 48A Athanassiadi); quoted more fully at alpha 4304.

Linked from1 entry

α4304Ατταwhichever, someHas four meanings. Meaning as many as or whichever in Antiphon, but meaning some or some kind of in Demosthenes in the Philippics. But sometimes atta is redundant. In the speech On the Fraudulent Embassy Demosthenes…

Neighbouring entries

ε2041Ἐπεκώμαζενwas going wild, began to go wild ε2042ἘπεκτείνομαιI extend over ε2043Ἐπ' ἐλάχιστονvery little, to a very little extent ε2044Ἐπέλαβεν(he/she) occupied, seized ε2045Ἐπελέξαντοthey read

Revision history3 revisions · last 22 Jan 2016

22 Jan 2016expanded primary note; another keyword — David Whitehead
6 Oct 2012another note and keyword; tweaking — David Whitehead
12 Feb 2004Revised — David Whitehead
12 Feb 2004Translated — Catharine Roth

Cite this entry

Suda On Line, s.v. Ἐπ' ἐλάχιστον (Adler number epsilon 2043), trans. Catharine Roth, 12 Feb 2004. https://www.cs.uky.edu/~raphael/sol/sol-entries/epsilon/2043

Translation by Catharine Roth for Suda On Line, revised by David Whitehead, licensed CC BY-NC-SA 4.0. Shown unchanged, under the same licence, non-commercially. Original on SOL ↗