Ἦ γάρ

n'est-ce pas? no?

Translated by Catharine Roth27 May 2004Vetting: high4 revisions

5 words

Meaning, [is it] not so?

Greek original · Adler’s text

Ἦ γάρ· ἀντὶ τοῦ οὐχ οὕτως;

Betacode

*)=h ga/r: a)nti\ tou= ou)x ou(/tws;

Same entry in Photius and in Timaeus' Platonic Lexicon. The headword phrase is an appeal for confirmation, very common in Plato; Theodoridis on Photius s.v. offers Meno 97A and Theaetetus 160E exempli gratia.

J. D. Denniston, The Greek Particles ed. 2 (Oxford 1966), pp. 85 & 285

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