Οὐδὲν ἀνῆκε
did not slacken at all
Translated by Catharine Roth5 Jul 2010Vetting: high3 revisions
Translation
The den ["at all"] is superfluous. Meaning did not slacken.
"He did not slacken, and well-disposed to his own fatherland [...]."1
"He did not slacken, and well-disposed to his own fatherland [...]."1
Greek original · Adler’s text
Οὐδὲν ἀνῆκε· περισσὸν τὸ δεν. ἀντὶ τοῦ οὐκ ἀνῆκεν. οὐδὲν ἀνῆκεν εὔνους τε τῇ πατρίδι τῇ ἑαυτοῦ.
Betacode
*ou)de\n a)nh=ke: perisso\n to\ den. a)nti\ tou= ou)k a)nh=ken. ou)de\n a)nh=ken eu)/nous te th=| patri/di th=| e(autou=.
Notes (1)
- The headword phrase, presumably extracted from the quotation given (even though the latter has nu ephelkustikon) is aorist active of
a)ni/hmi , third person singular. - 1Quotation (transmitted via the Excerpta made for Constantine Porphyrogenitus) unidentifiable. Ms F lacks it, Adler reports.
See also omicron 782, with the same idiom. ↩
Linked from2 entries
- ο782Οὐδὲν ἀνίειwas not slackening at all"He himself was not slackening at all, having shown himself an example of other training and especially of every kind of military deed." And elsewhere: "the young man [Germanus] was slackening no more, pushing back the…
- ο792Οὐδὲν ἦλθε ῥαψαμένη σκύτινον καθειμένονshe came having sewn to herself nothing leather and danglyThe "-thing" is redundant. For he wanted to say, simply, it did not come.
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