Πολλοστῷ

great

Translated by Ronald Allen22 Apr 2008Vetting: high4 revisions

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[Meaning] ultimate. "Excelling neither by virtue of your age nor in other matters, but for being in all things great."¹

Greek original · Adler’s text

Πολλοστῷ· ἐσχάτῳ. οὔτε καθ' ἡλικίαν σου οὔτε ἐς τὰ ἄλλα προὔχοντος, ἀλλὰ τοῖς πᾶσι πολλοστῷ ὄντι.

Betacode

*pollostw=|: e)sxa/tw|. ou)/te kaq' h(liki/an sou ou)/te e)s ta\ a)/lla prou)/xontos, a)lla\ toi=s pa=si pollostw=| o)/nti.

The headword, presumably extracted from the quotation given, is the masculine/neuter dative singular of the adjective pollosto/s; cf. pi 1925 and see LSJ s.v., esp. sense II there (web address 1).
1Quotation unidentifiable. As Adler notes, Bernhardy, citing sou ('your'), suggested that the passage was corrupt unless the genitive singular participle prou)/contos were to be replaced with the dative prou)/conti. But the enclitic form of the pronoun sou= is used in an unemphatic context [Smyth 325a], which is plausible in the passage. However, it is impossible to be certain of the meaning here. ↩

H.W. Smyth, Greek Grammar, Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1956.

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