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Haplôs
Adler number: alpha,3239
Translated headword: simply
Vetting Status: high
Translation: [Meaning] from necessity; or as at first, and not in another respect.
"They simply had no conception of the things to come; but regarding the very appearance of the ambassadors as ominous they fell into all kinds of lamentations [and wailings]."[1]
"Simply" [means] without qualification.[2]
Polybius [writes]: "than which a more unsuitable time has simply not occurred."[3]
Meaning from necessity, or as at first.
Greek Original:Haplôs: ex anankês: ê hôs prôton kai mê kat' allo. haplôs de ouden eidos tôn mellontôn egnôsan: ex autês de tês emphaseôs tôn presbeôn otteuomenoi eis pantodapas oimôgas enepipton. Haplôs, chôris prosthêkês. Polubios: hou kairos aphuesteros ou gegonen haplôs. anti tou ex anankês, ê hôs prôton.
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Keywords: definition; ethics; historiography; history
Translated by: Catharine Roth on 25 July 2000@23:36:01.
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