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Headword:
Apognoia
Adler number: alpha,3269
Translated headword: despair
Vetting Status: high
Translation: [Meaning] desperation.[1]
Thucydides [writes]: "they burned the boats, so that despair would leave them no option but to gain control of the land".[2]
Greek Original:Apognoia: apognôsis. Thoukudidês: eneprêsan de ta ploia, hopôs apognoia êi tou allo ti ê kratein tês gês.
Notes:
[1] Same glossing in the
scholia to
Thucydides (see next note).
[2] An appoximation of
Thucydides 3.85.3 (web address 1 below): the aorist participle
e)mprh/santes ('having burned') becomes the finite
e)neprh/santo ('they burned') here, and the word order is also changed (the original runs
kai\ ta\ ploi=a e)mprh/santes).
Associated internet address:
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Keywords: definition; dialects, grammar, and etymology; historiography; history; military affairs
Translated by: David Whitehead on 8 October 2000@09:26:38.
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