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Headword: *(/hkista
Adler number: eta,174
Translated headword: least, very little
Vetting Status: high
Translation:
[Meaning] not at all, not less.[1] And Libanius says: "if in some other way, in which the passenger on the bowl was least seen going [...]."[2]
"One would have seen him very little ever transgressing the truth in deed or word."[3]
"After Domitian had appointed him consul, he trusted [him] as little as possible with the expedition against the Celts."[4]
And elsewhere: "matters of commerce were least profitable to him."[5]
Xenophanes said, "to meet with tyrants either as little as possible or as pleasantly as possible."[6]
And elsewhere: "since they were very little concerned about truth [...]".[7] Meaning not at all.
Iamblichus [writes]: "a man understanding very little how to lie, but exceptionally devoted to the truth."[8]
And elsewhere: "considering [this] a terrible thing and very little endurable, she killed herself."[9]
And elsewhere: "the divine spirit oversees everything and wishes very little that [the gods] should be unmoved by prayers and impossible to propititate."[10]
But ou)x h(/kista ["not least"] means entirely, especially.[11]
Greek Original:
*(/hkista: ou)damw=s, ou)x h(=tton. kai\ *liba/nio/s fhsin: ei)/ tina a)/llon tro/pon, o(\n h(/kista w)/fqh metelqw\n o( e)pi\ th=| fia/lh| e)/mporos. h(/kista d' a)/n tis au)to\n e)qea/sato parekbai/nonta to\ a)lhqe\s e)/rgw| h)\ lo/gw| pote/. o( de\ *dometiano\s u(/paton au)to\n a)pofh/nas w(s h(/kista e)pifanh= pisteu/ei th\n stratia\n pro\s *keltou/s. kai\ au)=qis: ta\ th=s e)mpori/as e)pikerdh= h(/kista au)tw=| h)=n. *cenofa/nhs e)/fh: toi=s tura/nnois e)ntugxa/nein w(s h(/kista h)\ w(s h(/dista. kai\ au)=qis: h(/kista melh=san au)toi=s th=s a)lhqei/as. a)nti\ tou= ou)damw=s. *)ia/mblixos: a)nh\r e)pista/menos h(/kista yeu/desqai, fi/los de\ ei)/per tis a)/llos a)lhqei/a|. kai\ au)=qis: h(/tis deino\n h(ghsame/nh kai\ forhto\n h(/kista e(auth\n die/fqeire. kai\ au)=qis: to\ daimo/nion pa/nta e)fora=| kai\ h(/kista bou/letai tai=s timwri/ais a)paraith/tous te kai\ a)meili/ktous ei)=nai. *ou)x h(/kista de\ a)nti\ tou= pa/nu, ma/lista.
Notes:
[1] The headword is superlative of h(/sswn/h(/ttwn, neuter accusative plural used as an adverb. (Same or similar glossing in other lexica). It must be extracted from somewhere (not necessarily the Libanius passage about to be quoted); cf. generally eta 175, eta 598, eta 626, eta 630.
[2] Libanius fr.67 Foerster, also in the scholia to Plato, Laws 899D. The quotation makes little sense as it stands and seems faulty; Adler reports that ms V has fili/a| "friendship" for fia/lh| "bowl".
[3] Iamblichus, Babyloniaca fr. 31 Habrich (also registered as Damascius, Life of Isidore fr. 23 Asmus, now 46 Zintzen -- wrongly according to Adler); cf. epsiloniota 207.
[4] Quotation unidentifiable -- but A. Favuzzi identifies the individual concerned as L. Antonius Saturninus: see under alpha 2762.
[5] Aelian fr. 74g Domingo-Forasté (71 Hercher); cf. epsilon 1395.
[6] Diogenes Laertius 9.19.
[7] Quotation not identified by Adler, but it is Marcellinus, Life of Thucydides 27.
[8] Iamblichus, Babyloniaca fr. 31 Habrich again.
[9] Aelian fr. 53f Domingo-Forasté (50 Hercher); cf. phi 594.
[10] Quotation unidentifiable. (Adler says 'Aelian' again, but not in Hercher's fragments.)
[11] Similar glosses in other lexica and scholia; cf. omicron 853, omicron 981.
Keywords: biography; constitution; definition; dialects, grammar, and etymology; economics; ethics; military affairs; philosophy; politics; religion; women
Translated by: Catharine Roth on 11 August 2006@00:40:08.
Vetted by:
David Whitehead (augmented and modified notes; more keywords; cosmetics) on 11 August 2006@03:28:45.
David Whitehead (tweaking) on 9 December 2012@09:50:48.
Catharine Roth (updated references) on 24 May 2013@01:49:24.
Catharine Roth (added cross-references) on 24 May 2013@01:56:43.
David Whitehead (coding and other cosmetics) on 22 April 2016@08:49:11.
Catharine Roth (coding) on 4 July 2016@12:01:14.
David Whitehead (expanded a note) on 14 February 2017@12:45:18.

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