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Headword: *)elpi/sas
Adler number: epsilon,912
Translated headword: hoping, expecting
Vetting Status: high
Translation:
This is said among Attic-speakers not only of a good [expectation], but simply of the future's outcome.
Greek Original:
*)elpi/sas: ou) mo/non e)p' a)gaqw=|, a)ll' a(plw=s e)pi\ th=| tou= me/llontos e)kba/sei le/getai para\ *)attikoi=s.
Note:
From a scholion on Thucydides 1.1.1 (web address 1), where the headword (aorist participle, masculine nominative singular, of e)lpi/zw) occurs (of his own 'hope' that the Peloponnesian War would be a major one).
Associated internet address:
Web address 1
Keywords: biography; definition; dialects, grammar, and etymology; historiography; military affairs
Translated by: Catharine Roth on 23 June 2005@18:52:49.
Vetted by:
David Whitehead (tweaks; expanded note) on 24 June 2005@02:50:25.
David Whitehead on 15 August 2012@04:20:22.
Catharine Roth (supplemented note) on 26 August 2013@20:47:48.
Catharine Roth (augmented headword translation) on 18 January 2017@01:58:19.
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