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Headword:
Ἀπόγνοια
Adler number: alpha,3269
Translated headword: despair
Vetting Status: high
Translation: Desperation.[1]
Thucydides [writes]: "they burned the boats, so that despair would leave them no option but to gain control of the land".[2]
Ἀπόγνοια: ἀπόγνωσις. Θουκυδίδης: ἐνέπρησαν δὲ τὰ πλοῖα, ὅπως ἀπόγνοια ᾖ τοῦ ἄλλο τι ἢ κρατεῖν τῆς γῆς.
Notes:
[1] Same glossing in the
scholia to
Thucydides (see next note).
[2] An appoximation of
Thucydides 3.85.3 (web address 1 below): here the aorist participle
ἐμπρήσαντες ('having burned') becomes the finite
ἐνεπρήσαντο ('they burned') here, and the word order is also changed: the original runs
καὶ τὰ πλοῖα ἐμπρήσαντες .
Web address 1
Keywords: definition; dialects, grammar, and etymology; historiography; history; military affairs
Translated by: David Whitehead on 8 October 2000@09:26:38.
Vetted by:David Whitehead (added keywords; cosmetics) on 20 August 2002@06:59:20.
William Hutton (Expanded note, added link, set status) on 5 November 2002@13:11:13.
David Whitehead (another note and keyword; cosmetics) on 2 April 2012@03:34:23.
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