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Headword:
Epaïein
Adler number: epsilon,1929
Translated headword: to grasp, to hear
Vetting Status: high
Translation: [Meaning] to listen.[1] "[... he] understanding a little of dialectic, and being able to grasp something concerning these things, [but] accomplishing nothing more. For old landladies already know the famous "For if A, [so] B. Then again A; hence B."[2]
Greek Original:Epaïein: akouein. oliga dialektikês hapsamenos, kai hosa epaïein huper autôn echôn, allo ouden pleon periergasamenos: to gar ei to a#, to b#. alla mên to a#: to ara b#: isasin êdê peripheromenon hai pandokoi graes.
Notes:
The headword infinitive is presumably extracted from the quotation given.
[1] (cf. generally
epsilon 1930.) A reversal, deliberate or otherwise, of the equivalent gloss in
Photius s.v.: '
not [meaning] to listen, but to understand and appreciate'.
[2]
Damascius,
Life of Isidore 356 Zintzen (223 Asmus); also quoted in part at
alpha 278,
delta 627,
pi 179,
pi 833.
Translated by: Catharine Roth on 20 August 2007@14:53:27.
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