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Headword: Ἁπλῶς
Adler number: alpha,3239
Translated headword: simply
Vetting Status: high
Translation:
[Meaning] from necessity; or as at first, and not in another respect.
"They simply had no conception of the things to come; but regarding the very appearance of the ambassadors as ominous they fell into all kinds of lamentations [and wailings]."[1]
"Simply" [means] without qualification.[2]
Polybius [writes]: "than which a more unsuitable time has simply not occurred."[3]
Meaning from necessity, or as at first.
Greek Original:
Ἁπλῶς: ἐξ ἀνάγκης: ἢ ὡς πρῶτον καὶ μὴ κατ' ἄλλο. ἁπλῶς δὲ οὐδὲν εἶδος τῶν μελλόντων ἔγνωσαν: ἐξ αὐτῆς δὲ τῆς ἐμφάσεως τῶν πρέσβεων ὀττευόμενοι εἰς παντοδαπὰς οἰμωγὰς ἐνέπιπτον. Ἁπλῶς, χωρὶς προσθήκης. Πολύβιος: οὗ καιρὸς ἀφυέστερος οὐ γέγονεν ἁπλῶς. ἀντὶ τοῦ ἐξ ἀνάγκης, ἢ ὡς πρῶτον.
Notes:
[1] Polybius 36.7.1-2; again at omicron 730.
[2] So already alpha 3238.
[3] Polybius fr.15 B-W; again at alpha 4661.
Keywords: definition; ethics; historiography; history
Translated by: Catharine Roth on 25 July 2000@23:36:01.
Vetted by:
David Whitehead (modified translation; augmented notes) on 17 March 2001@09:54:43.
David Whitehead (adjusted note numbers; cosmetics) on 1 April 2012@07:45:25.
Catharine Roth (tweak) on 2 April 2012@00:45:22.
David Whitehead (another keyword) on 2 April 2012@03:15:46.
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