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ἁμόθεν?

Adverb; Transliteration: hamothen

Principal Part: ἁμόθεν

Etym.: ἁμός

Sense

  1. from some place or other, from what source soever

Examples

  • τὰς μὲν ἐπιθυμίας φῂς οὐ κολαστέον, εἰ μέλλει τις οἱο῀ν δεῖ εἶναι, ἐῶντα δὲ αὐτὰς ὡς μεγίστας πλήρωσιν αὐταῖς ἁμόθεν γέ ποθεν ἑτοιμάζειν, καὶ τοῦτο εἶναι τὴν ἀρετήν· (Plato, Euthydemus, Protagoras, Gorgias, Meno, 277:5)
  • τῶν ἁμόθεν γε, θεά, θύγατερ Διός, εἰπὲ καὶ ἡμῖν. (Homer, Odyssey, Book 1 1:6)
  • μηχανὴν δὴ δεῖ τὸν νομοθέτην ἐννοεῖν ἁμόθεν γέ ποθεν ὅντινα τρόπον τοῦτ ἔσται τῇ πόλει. (Plato, Laws, book 7 64:1)

Synonyms

  1. from some place or other

Source: Henry George Liddell. Robert Scott. "A Greek-English Lexicon". revised and augmented throughout by. Sir Henry Stuart Jones.

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