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Headword: Holos kai pas
Adler number: omicron,199
Translated headword: fully and totally [bent on]
Vetting Status: high
Translation:
"He was fully and totally bent on fighting a war."[1]
Or, "he was fully and totally bent on exposing himself to danger and risking a battle".[2]
"He was fully and totally focussed on the existing dangers".[3] Meaning with all his might.
Greek Original:
Holos kai pas: ên de holos kai pas pros to polemein. ê, pros to paraballesthai kai diakinduneuein holos kai pas ên. holos kai pas ên têi dianoiai peri tous enestôtas kindunous. anti tou pasêi dunamei.
Notes:
For the idiom exemplified in this entry see generally LSJ s.v. o(/los, 1.1 (with examples from Plato as well as the Polybius one quoted here).
[1] Quotation (and individual) unidentifiable.
[2] Polybius 3.94.10 (on Fabius' magister equitum M. Minucius Rufus); cf. pi 273.
[3] Quotation (and individual) unidentifiable.
Keywords: biography; definition; ethics; historiography; history; military affairs; philosophy
Translated by: David Whitehead on 20 July 2006@07:10:31.
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Catharine Roth (set status) on 20 July 2006@14:24:37.
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