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Headword:
*)ep'
e)la/xiston
Adler number: epsilon,2043
Translated headword: very little, to a very little extent
Vetting Status: high
Translation: [Meaning] not far, to a small degree.
Damascius [writes]: "[Isidore] had very little appreciation of poetical works, as they did not seize his soul, but reached only to his imagination and his tongue."[1]
*)ep' e)la/xiston: e)p' o)li/gon, pro\s braxu/. *dama/skios: ei)=xe de\ e)p' e)la/xiston th=s pro\s ta\ poihtika\ sumpaqei/as, a(/te ou)x a(pto/mena th=s yuxh=s, a)lla\ me/xri fantasi/as kai\ glw/tths i(sta/mena.
Notes:
The headword idiom, adverbial, is probably extracted from the quotation given (though there are many alternatives, beginning with three in
Thucydides).
[1]
Damascius,
Life of Isidore fr. 112 Zintzen (61 Asmus, 48A Athanassiadi); quoted more fully at
alpha 4304.
Translated by: Catharine Roth on 12 February 2004@01:09:53.
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