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Headword:
Mononouchi
Adler number: mu,1234
Translated headword: all but
Vetting Status: high
Translation: [Meaning] almost, nearly.[1]
Meaning to speak properly or to come close to saying.[2]
"[...] all but quoting the tragic phrase: 'the gifts of enemies are no gifts'."[3]
Greek Original:Mononouchi: schedon, engus. anti tou kuriôs eipein ê par' oligon eipein. mononouchi to tês tragôidias epiphthengomenon: echthrôn adôra dôra.
Notes:
cf.
mu 1233.
[1] Likewise or similarly in other lexica (see the references at
Photius mu523 Theodoridis), and in a scholion on
Plato,
Axiochus 365B.
[2] cf.
Anecdota Oxoniensia ed. Cramer 2.460.12.
[3] Theophylact Simocatta,
Histories 7.15.11 (quoting
Sophocles,
Ajax 665; cf.
alpha 519,
alpha 1144,
epsilon 4028), on
chi 3.
Translated by: Catharine Roth on 2 August 2009@00:39:58.
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