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Headword: Τοῖς φθάνουσι
Adler number: tau,1139
Translated headword: the preceding, the previous, the aforementioned
Vetting Status: low
Translation:
[To/for/in] those who/which have already been.
Greek Original:
Τοῖς φθάνουσι: τοῖς ἤδη γεγονόσι.
Notes:
Phrase in the dative plural, with the present participle of φθάνω . Evidently quoted from somewhere: attested in Appian, Civil War 3.3.23, Alexander of Aphrodisias (several times), and later writers.
For the verb φθάνω , see also phi 475, phi 476, phi 478, phi 480; and see generally LSJ s.v., II, for this sort of sense of it.
Keywords: definition; dialects, grammar, and etymology; historiography; philosophy
Translated by: Catharine Roth on 8 November 2010@01:38:35.
Vetted by:
David Whitehead (expanded note; more keywords; tweaks and cosmetics) on 8 November 2010@03:03:58.


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