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Headword: *)epi\ pollw=|
Adler number: epsilon,2531
Translated headword: to a great extent
Vetting Status: high
Translation:
Meaning many times [sc. as much]. "They kept peace for some time; then to a great extent they paid back to the Romans their own suffering."[1]
Greek Original:
*)epi\ pollw=|: a)nti\ tou= poluplasi/ws. oi( de\ xro/non me/n tina h(su/xasan: e)/peita e)pi\ pollw=| to\ pa/qhma sfw=n toi=s *(rwmai/ois a)pe/dosan.
Notes:
The headword phrase is presumably extracted from the quotation given (though it is common enough from Demosthenes onwards).
[1] Cassius Dio 55.6.3 (which has the doubly compound verb a)ntape/dosan), on the Sugambri.
Keywords: definition; dialects, grammar, and etymology; ethics; geography; historiography; history; military affairs; rhetoric
Translated by: Catharine Roth on 18 November 2007@01:50:10.
Vetted by:
David Whitehead (tweaks and cosmetics) on 18 November 2007@04:51:28.
David Whitehead (more keywords; tweaking) on 17 October 2012@08:25:02.
David Whitehead (another note) on 30 January 2016@07:52:32.
Catharine Roth (tweaked note) on 8 October 2017@00:29:58.

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