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οὐκ ἔστι λύπης, ἄν περ ὀρθῶς τις σκοπῇ, ἄλγημα μεῖζον τῶν ἐν ἀνθρώπου φύσει → amongst the natural ills of man there is, if one but look at it aright, no greater pain than grief
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|strgr=[[first]] [[person]] [[singular]] of a [[past]] tense of [[ὀφείλω]]; I [[ought]] ([[wish]]), i.e. (interjection) oh [[that]]!: would (to God). | |strgr=[[first]] [[person]] [[singular]] of a [[past]] tense of [[ὀφείλω]]; I [[ought]] ([[wish]]), i.e. (interjection) oh [[that]]!: would (to God). | ||
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|txtha=(for ὠφελον, [[without]] the [[augment]], 2nd aorist of [[ὀφείλω]]; in earlier Greek [[with]] an infinitive, as ὠφελον [[θανεῖν]], I [[ought]] to [[have]] died, expressive of a [[wish]], equivalent to would [[that]] I were [[dead]]; in [[later]] Greek it assumes the [[nature]] of an interjection, to be rendered) would [[that]], [[where]] [[one]] wishes [[that]] a [[thing]] had happened [[which]] has [[not]] happened, or [[that]] a [[thing]] be done [[which]] [[probably]] [[will]] [[not]] be done (cf. Winer s Grammar, 301 f (283); Buttmann, § 150,5): [[with]] an optative [[present]] [[with]] an indicative [[imperfect]], Rev. ibid. G L T Tr WH; [[Epictetus]] diss. 2,18, 15; Ignatius ad Smyrn. c. 12 [ET]); [[with]] an indicative aorist, [[ὄφελον]] ἀπεθάνομεν, Lucian, soloec. (or Pseudosoph.) 1, [[where]] [[this]] [[construction]] is classed as a [[solecism]]). Cf. Passow, ii., p. 603{a}; (Liddell and Scott, [[under]] the [[word]] [[ὀφείλω]], II:3). | |||
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Revision as of 18:02, 28 August 2017
English (Strong)
first person singular of a past tense of ὀφείλω; I ought (wish), i.e. (interjection) oh that!: would (to God).
English (Thayer)
(for ὠφελον, without the augment, 2nd aorist of ὀφείλω; in earlier Greek with an infinitive, as ὠφελον θανεῖν, I ought to have died, expressive of a wish, equivalent to would that I were dead; in later Greek it assumes the nature of an interjection, to be rendered) would that, where one wishes that a thing had happened which has not happened, or that a thing be done which probably will not be done (cf. Winer s Grammar, 301 f (283); Buttmann, § 150,5): with an optative present with an indicative imperfect, Rev. ibid. G L T Tr WH; Epictetus diss. 2,18, 15; Ignatius ad Smyrn. c. 12 [ET]); with an indicative aorist, ὄφελον ἀπεθάνομεν, Lucian, soloec. (or Pseudosoph.) 1, where this construction is classed as a solecism). Cf. Passow, ii., p. 603{a}; (Liddell and Scott, under the word ὀφείλω, II:3).
