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Headword:
*mononouxi/
Adler number: mu,1234
Translated headword: all but
Vetting Status: high
Translation: [Meaning] almost, nearly.[1]
Meaning to speak properly or to come close to saying.[2]
"[...] all but quoting the tragic phrase: 'the gifts of enemies are no gifts'."[3]
Greek Original:*mononouxi/: sxedo/n, e)ggu/s. a)nti\ tou= kuri/ws ei)pei=n h)\ par' o)li/gon ei)pei=n. mononouxi\ to\ th=s tragw|di/as e)pifqeggo/menon: e)xqrw=n a)/dwra dw=ra.
Notes:
cf.
mu 1233.
[1] Likewise or similarly in other lexica (see the references at
Photius mu523 Theodoridis), and in a scholion on
Plato,
Axiochus 365B.
[2] cf.
Anecdota Oxoniensia ed. Cramer 2.460.12.
[3] Theophylact Simocatta,
Histories 7.15.11 (quoting
Sophocles,
Ajax 665; cf.
alpha 519,
alpha 1144,
epsilon 4028), on the Avar khan (see
chi 3 generally); cf. de Boor (272) and Whitby (201). On the Avars, see generally
alpha 18 note.
C. de Boor, ed., Theophylacti Simocattae Historiae, (Leipzig 1887, reprint 2022)
M. Whitby and M. Whitby, eds. and trans., The History of Theophylact Simocatta, (Oxford 1986)
Keywords: biography; definition; dialects, grammar, and etymology; ethics; historiography; proverbs; tragedy
Translated by: Catharine Roth on 2 August 2009@00:39:58.
Vetted by:David Whitehead (augmented n.3; another keyword; tweaks) on 2 August 2009@05:20:38.
David Whitehead (tweaking) on 27 May 2013@04:10:03.
Ronald Allen (expanded n.3, added bibliography and cross-reference) on 9 May 2025@11:10:52.
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