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Headword: *)ekfanesta/tas
Adler number: epsilon,705
Translated headword: most manifest, very manifest
Vetting Status: high
Translation:
[Meaning] most/very clear. Polybios [writes]: "for, of the things that are at hand, [it is] causing maximum distress [which] always holds the most manifest joys."[1]
Greek Original:
*)ekfanesta/tas: pa/nu lampra/s. *polu/bios: to\ ga\r ma/lista lupou=n a)ei\ tw=n e)n xersi\n o)/ntwn e)kfanesta/tas e)/xei ta\s xara/s.
Notes:
The headword, feminine accusative plural of this adjective in the superlative, is presumably extracted from the quotation given.
[1] Polybios fr. 37 Büttner-Wobst (probably derived from a lost section of the Excerpta Constantini Porphyrogeniti). For 'things that are at hand' cf. alpha 4669.
Keywords: definition; dialects, grammar, and etymology; ethics; historiography; history; military affairs; philosophy
Translated by: William Hutton on 23 January 2007@06:57:10.
Vetted by:
David Whitehead (minor tweaks to tr; removed translator's aporia from note; x-ref) on 24 January 2007@03:32:45.
David Whitehead (another note and keyword; tweaks) on 14 June 2011@07:15:49.
David Whitehead (tweaking) on 10 August 2012@05:20:05.
Catharine Roth (coding) on 2 January 2017@02:08:15.

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