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Anapiptein
Adler number: alpha,2018
Translated headword: to fall back
Vetting Status: high
Translation: [Meaning] not [falling back in the sense of] reclining, but repenting and retracting and shrinking back.
Thucydides [in book] 1 [writes]: "when conquered they fall back only the slightest bit".[1]
Greek Original:Anapiptein: ou to kataklinesthai, alla to metamelesthai kai metatithesthai kai apoknein. Thoukudidês a#: kai nikômenoi ep' elachiston anapiptousin.
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Keywords: definition; dialects, grammar, and etymology; ethics; historiography; history; military affairs
Translated by: Jennifer Benedict on 16 October 2000@12:59:44.
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