Καὶ τάχα ἴμεν
and we (will) go quick
Translated by Nick Nicholas10 Oct 2008Vetting: high8 revisions
Translation
[Meaning] and we [will] make our way quickly.
Greek original · Adler’s text
Καὶ τάχα ἴμεν· καὶ ταχέως πορευόμεθα.
Betacode
*kai\ ta/xa i)/men: kai\ taxe/ws poreuo/meqa.
Notes
- Same entry in Photius (Lexicon kappa76 Theodoridis), and already in Timaeus' Platonic Lexicon, which correctly has future
poreuso/meqa in the gloss.
Both of the principal words in the headword phrase would have been obscure by the time of the lexicographer:ei)=mi "go" had yielded to other verbs,poreu/omai and ultimatelyu(pa/gw , modernphgai/nw ;ta/xa had already lost its literal meaning "quickly, soon" by the New Testament (Bauer s.v.), and retained only the sense "perhaps".
The passage being glossed (elliptically) is Plato, Phaedrus 242A (web address 1):kai\ a(/ma peri\ tw=n ei)rhme/nwn dialexqe/ntes, ta/xa e)peida\n a)poyuxh=| i)/men , "And when we have discussed what has been said, then, when it is cooler, we will go away".
See also epsiloniota 152.