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Headword:
Adunata
einai
Adler number: alpha,537
Translated headword: to be impossibles
Vetting Status: high
Translation: Instead of impossible. For often
Thucydides has used plurals instead of singulars, especially for this expression.[1]
Impossible is that which is not capable of being true; such as, the earth flies.[2]
'With the general finding it impossibles to take so great a risk of war.'[3]
Greek Original:Adunata einai: anti tou adunaton. pollakis gar kechrêtai Thoukudidês tois plêthuntikois anti henikôn, malista d' epi tautês tês lexeôs. adunaton de estin, ho mê estin epidektikon tou alêthes einai: hoion hê gê hiptatai. adunata echontos tou stratêgou kubon anarripsai polemou tosouton.
Notes:
[1]
Thucydides 1.59.2, etc; see web address 1. (For something similar see
epsilon 2774.) Same material in other lexica; references at
Photius alpha392 Theodoridis.
[2] Stoic doctrine from
Diogenes Laertius 7.75.
[3] This sentence of unknown source is also found, in slightly different word order, at
kappa 2601. For the use of the phrase "to toss the die",
ku/bos, as a metaphor in
Polybius and
Plutarch for taking the risk of battle or war see also
alpha 2310,
epsilon 3013 (Julius Caesar's 'The die is cast'),
kappa 2591 and
phi 5 (end); also the proverb "Triple six or three aces" (
eta 635,
tau 934,
tau 1006).
Associated internet address:
Web address 1
Keywords: definition; dialects, grammar, and etymology; historiography; imagery; military affairs; philosophy
Translated by: Jennifer Benedict on 12 April 2000@13:34:40.
Vetted by:Catharine Roth (Added notes and link.) on 10 September 2000@00:36:45.
Robert Dyer (Minor translation correction; added a cross reference to Kappa 2601 and other uses of dicing as a metaphor for the risk of battle or war.) on 22 November 2000@10:39:20.
David Whitehead (modified headword; added keywords; cosmetics) on 17 February 2003@08:07:07.
David Whitehead (another keyword) on 28 November 2005@10:15:39.
David Whitehead (x-ref) on 19 December 2007@04:04:51.
David Whitehead (tweaks and cosmetics) on 12 June 2008@09:31:54.
David Whitehead (expanded n.1) on 19 August 2013@06:10:11.
Catharine Roth (tweaked note and link) on 9 December 2013@10:11:26.
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