Οὐχ ἅλις

not enough

Translated by Catharine Roth30 May 2010Vetting: high2 revisions

4 words

[Meaning] not in vain.

Greek original · Adler’s text

Οὐχ ἅλις· οὐ μάταιον.

Betacode

*ou)x a(/lis: ou) ma/taion.

Hesychius omicron1923 glosses this phrase with ou)x i(kanw=s "not sufficiently" (in reference, according to Latte, to Euripides, Andromache 582); and see also the scholia on the same phrase in Homer, Iliad 5.349.

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