Καταταχῆσαι

to escape by speed, to outstrip

Translated by Catharine Roth8 Aug 2008Vetting: high2 revisions

2 notes · 12 words

[Meaning] to outrun.¹ "[...] and [she] not being able to outstrip [...]."²

Greek original · Adler’s text

Καταταχῆσαι· προφθάσαι. μήτε καταταχῆσαι δυναμένην.

Betacode

*katataxh=sai: profqa/sai. mh/te katataxh=sai duname/nhn.

1The headword (presumably extracted from the quotation given) is aorist infinitive of katataxe/w; cf. kappa 812, kappa 814. ↩
2Quotation unidentifiable (but very plausibly attributed to Polybius -- who has five instances of the headword -- by Lodewijk Caspar Valckenaer [1715-1785]). ↩

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