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Headword:
*th\n
taxi/sthn
Adler number: tau,525
Translated headword: as quickly as possible
Vetting Status: high
Translation: An adverb[ial phrase], meaning quickly.[1]
'He was eager to see everything decided as quickly as possible'.[2]
Greek Original:*th\n taxi/sthn: e)pi/rrhma, a)nti\ tou= taxe/ws. o( de\ filoti/mws ei)=xe pro\s th\n taxi/sthn kri=nai ta\ o(/la.
Notes:
[1] Besides the quotation about to be given, see also under
delta 442.
[2]
Polybius 3.70.1 (on Ti. Sempronius
Longus (cf. Briscoe, p. 49) and the Battle (218 BCE) of the River Trebia (now Trebbia, in northern Italy, Barrington Atlas map 39 grid F3; cf. OCD(4) s.v. Trebia)). See web address 1.
Reference:
J. Briscoe, 'The Second Punic War,' in A.E. Astin, F.W. Walbank, M.W. Frederiksen, and R.M. Ogilvie, eds., The Cambridge Ancient History, Vol. VIII, 2nd ed., Rome and the Mediterranean to 133 B.C., Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1989
Associated internet address:
Web address 1
Keywords: biography; definition; dialects, grammar, and etymology; geography; historiography; history; military affairs
Translated by: David Whitehead on 17 October 2003@09:09:07.
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