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Headword: Anarithmêtos
Adler number: alpha,2046
Translated headword: countless, boundless
Vetting Status: high
Translation:
[Meaning] infinite.
Sophocles [writes]: "time, long and boundless, brings forth everything unknown and hides [everything] apparent."[1]
Also [sc. attested is the related nominative plural] a)na/riqmoi, [meaning] very many, infinite.[2]
"One man for me is as thirty thousand, but countless men are as no one. This I proclaim even in the house of Persephone," says Heraclitus.[3]
Greek Original:
Anarithmêtos: apeiros. Sophoklês: hapanth' ho makros kanarithmêtos chronos phuei t' adêla kai phanenta kruptetai. kai Anarithmoi, pleistoi, apeiroi. heis emoi anthrôpos trismurioi: hoi d' anarithmoi oudeis. taut' audô kai para Persephonêi, phêsin Hêrakleitos.
Notes:
The primary headword is perhaps (though not necessarily) extracted from the first quotation given.
[1] Sophocles, Ajax 646-7 (web address 1). The passage is quoted again, more fully, at pi 1281.
[2] Again, perhaps (though not necessarily) extracted from the quotation which follows
[3] Greek Anthology 7.128.3-4 (with 1), quoted in Diogenes Laertius 9.16.
Associated internet address:
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Keywords: definition; dialects, grammar, and etymology; imagery; philosophy; poetry; tragedy
Translated by: Jennifer Benedict on 20 October 2000@17:26:13.
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