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Headword: Κατάκρας
Adler number: kappa,599
Translated headword: utterly
Vetting Status: low
Translation:
Wholly, completely.[1]
"He was saying that no position of security was still left other than capturing the city utterly".[2]
"[...] if perhaps [he/she/it] might be at the summit of the city, meaning on the acropolis".[3]
Greek Original:
Κατάκρας: ἐπίρρημα. διόλου, παντελῶς. ὁ δὲ ἔλεγε μηδὲν ἔτι λείπεσθαι φυλακτήριον τὸ μὴ οὐ κατάκρας ἁλῶναι τὴν πόλιν. εἰ μήποτε εἴη κατ' ἄκρας πόλεως, ἀντὶ τοῦ κατ' ἀκροπόλεως.
Notes:
[1] For this headword adverb see already kappa 598.
[2] Quotation unidentifiable.
[3] Quotation (illustrative not of the present headword but the phrase κατ' ἄκρας ) unidentifiable. Adler's punctuation, followed here, treats the glossing clause as part of the quotation itself.
Keywords: biography; definition; dialects, grammar, and etymology; geography; historiography; history; military affairs
Translated by: David Whitehead on 29 May 2008@04:45:04.
Vetted by:
Catharine Roth (set status) on 29 May 2008@10:54:05.
David Whitehead (tweaked tr) on 30 May 2008@02:54:00.

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