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Headword: *)en a)karei=
Adler number: epsilon,1102
Translated headword: in an instant
Vetting Status: high
Translation:
[Meaning] in a brief [time], in a short [time].[1]
"They were at risk of dying in an instant of time".[2]
Greek Original:
*)en a)karei=: e)n braxei=, e)n o)li/gw|. e)n a)karei= xro/nw| e)kindu/neuon diafqarh=nai.
Notes:
A fuller entry on the same topic at alpha 802. For an example of the use of the phrase in this sense, without a word explicitly denoting 'time': [Lucian], Asinus 37. The adjective a)karh=s, connected with the verb kai/rw literally means 'too short to be cut'; hence e)n a)karei= xro/nw| ('in an instant [i.e. indivisible quantity] of time) in the quotation given, and elsewhere e.g. in the mss. of Aristophanes, Plutus [Wealth] 244. Also e)n a. xro/nou or tou= xro/nou: Alciphron 3.56, Lucian, Timon 3 and 23. The dative a)karei= is used as an adverb by Plutarch, Sertorius 16.
[1] = Synagoge epsilon372, Photius epsilon802; cf. Hesychius epsilon2276, and contrast Hesychius epsilon2624, with the gloss e)n r(iph=|, 'in a rush'.
[2] Once [Polybius] fr. 120 Büttner-Wobst, but nowadays attributed to book 30 of Diodorus Siculus: see at alpha 3680, and cf. delta 584, epsilon 254.
Keywords: comedy; definition; dialects, grammar, and etymology; historiography; history
Translated by: Antonella Ippolito on 1 September 2005@20:52:41.
Vetted by:
David Whitehead (tweaked headword and tr; cosmetics) on 2 September 2005@03:34:03.
David Whitehead (another x-ref) on 8 July 2009@05:22:38.
David Whitehead (expanded n.2) on 7 February 2011@04:56:35.
Catharine Roth (tweaks) on 16 February 2011@19:52:17.
David Whitehead (cosmetics) on 21 August 2012@07:06:02.
William Hutton (augmented and rearranged notes) on 28 August 2013@17:04:52.
David Whitehead on 29 December 2014@05:45:49.
Ronald Allen (cosmeticule) on 31 August 2018@22:37:00.

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