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Headword: *pollostw=|
Adler number: pi,1926
Translated headword: great
Vetting Status: high
Translation:
[Meaning] ultimate. "Excelling neither by virtue of your age nor in other matters, but for being in all things great."[1]
Greek Original:
*pollostw=|: e)sxa/tw|. ou)/te kaq' h(liki/an sou ou)/te e)s ta\ a)/lla prou)/xontos, a)lla\ toi=s pa=si pollostw=| o)/nti.
Notes:
The headword, presumably extracted from the quotation given, is the masculine/neuter dative singular of the adjective pollosto/s; cf. pi 1925 and see LSJ s.v., esp. sense II there (web address 1).
[1] Quotation unidentifiable. As Adler notes, Bernhardy, citing sou ('your'), suggested that the passage was corrupt unless the genitive singular participle prou)/contos were to be replaced with the dative prou)/conti. But the enclitic form of the pronoun sou= is used in an unemphatic context [Smyth 325a], which is plausible in the passage. However, it is impossible to be certain of the meaning here.
Reference:
H.W. Smyth, Greek Grammar, Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1956.
Associated internet address:
Web address 1
Keywords: biography; definition; dialects, grammar, and etymology; ethics
Translated by: Ronald Allen on 22 April 2008@02:05:22.
Vetted by:
David Whitehead (x-ref; another keyword; tweaks and cosmetics) on 22 April 2008@03:22:47.
David Whitehead (tweaked hw and tr) on 8 October 2013@06:43:24.
David Whitehead on 8 October 2013@06:43:42.
Catharine Roth (expanded note, added link) on 1 October 2021@00:46:48.

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