Μακρὰν οὐσίαν

long property

Translated by David Whitehead4 Feb 2007Vetting: high3 revisions

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This is what Attic writers call voluminous [property].

Greek original · Adler’s text

Μακρὰν οὐσίαν· οὕτω λέγουσι τὴν πολλὴν Ἀττικοί.

Betacode

*makra\n ou)si/an: ou(/tw le/gousi th\n pollh\n *)attikoi/.

Same entry in Photius mu47 Theodoridis; and see generally LSJ s.v. makro/s I.4 for this sense (not confined to Attic writers).
The present headword phrase is in the accusative case, evidently quoted from somewhere: perhaps (as Theodoridis suggests) Aristotle, Politics 1290b16 on Kolophon.

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