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Headword: Ep' elachiston
Adler number: epsilon,2043
Translated headword: very little, to a very little extent
Vetting Status: high
Translation:
[Meaning] not far, to a small degree. Damascius [writes]: "[Isidore] had very little appreciation of poetical works, as they did not seize his soul, but reached only to his imagination and his tongue."[1]
Greek Original:
Ep' elachiston: ep' oligon, pros brachu. Damaskios: eiche de ep' elachiston tês pros ta poiêtika sumpatheias, hate ouch haptomena tês psuchês, alla mechri phantasias kai glôttês histamena.
Notes:
The headword idiom, adverbial, is probably extracted from the quotation given (though there are many alternatives, beginning with three in Thucydides).
[1] Damascius, Life of Isidore fr. 112 Zintzen (61 Asmus, 48A Athanassiadi); quoted more fully at alpha 4304.
Keywords: biography; definition; dialects, grammar, and etymology; historiography; philosophy; poetry
Translated by: Catharine Roth on 12 February 2004@01:09:53.
Vetted by:
David Whitehead on 12 February 2004@03:15:57.
David Whitehead (another note and keyword; tweaking) on 6 October 2012@06:55:28.
David Whitehead (expanded primary note; another keyword) on 22 January 2016@03:27:36.
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