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Headword: Ὅλος καὶ πᾶς
Adler number: omicron,199
Translated headword: fully and totally [bent on]
Vetting Status: low
Translation:
"He was fully and totally bent on fighting a war."[1]
Or, "he was fully and totally bent on exposing himself to danger and risking a battle".[2]
"He was fully and totally focussed on the existing dangers".[3] Meaning with all his might.
Greek Original:
Ὅλος καὶ πᾶς: ἦν δὲ ὅλος καὶ πᾶς πρὸς τὸ πολεμεῖν. ἤ, πρὸς τὸ παραβάλλεσθαι καὶ διακινδυνεύειν ὅλος καὶ πᾶς ἦν. ὅλος καὶ πᾶς ἦν τῇ διανοίᾳ περὶ τοὺς ἐνεστῶτας κινδύνους. ἀντὶ τοῦ πάσῃ δυνάμει.
Notes:
For the idiom exemplified in this entry see generally LSJ s.v. ὅλος , 1.1 (with examples from Plato as well as the Polybius one quoted here).
[1] Quotation unidentifiable.
[2] Polybius 3.94.10 (on Fabius' magister equitum M.Minucius Rufus); cf. pi 273.
[3] Quotation unidentifiable.
Keywords: biography; definition; historiography; history; military affairs; philosophy
Translated by: David Whitehead on 20 July 2006@07:10:31.
Vetted by:
Catharine Roth (set status) on 20 July 2006@14:24:37.
David Whitehead (tweaks and cosmetics) on 21 July 2006@03:26:06.

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