Ὡς

so, how

Translated by Catharine Roth12 Sep 2005Vetting: high3 revisions

3 notes · 31 words
[Meaning] excessively/too much. In [Plato's] Parmenides [there occurs the phrase]: "amazingly how hard to convince".1 Sophocles [writes]: "for [it is] amazing how the bow falls".2
This [word] w(s has 32 meanings.3

Greek original · Adler’s text

Ὡς· λίαν. Παρμενίδῃ· θαυμασίως ὡς δυσανάπειστον. Σοφοκλῆς· θαυμαστὰ γὰρ τὸ τόξον ὡς ὀλισθάνει. λβʹ δὲ σημαίνει τὸ ὡς τοῦτο.

Betacode
*(ws: li/an. *parmeni/dh|: qaumasi/ws w(s dusana/peiston. *sofoklh=s: qaumasta\ ga\r to\ to/con w(s o)lisqa/nei. lb# de\ shmai/nei to\ w(s tou=to.

Notes (3)

  1. 1Plato, Parmenides 135A (web address 1). ↩
  2. 2Sophocles, fr. 960 Radt (875 Dindorf). ↩
  3. 3cf. Choeroboscus, Epimerismi in Psalmos (ed. Gaisford) 4.29; Etymologicum Magnum 824.14. ↩

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Revision history3 revisions · last 22 Dec 2013
  1. tweaked note — Catharine Roth
  2. Revised — David Whitehead
  3. more keywords; cosmetics — David Whitehead
  4. Translated — Catharine Roth

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