ἔμπης
πέτρην κοιλαίνει ρανὶς ὕδατος ἐνδελεχείῃ → constant dropping wears away a stone, constant dripping will wear away the hardest stone, little strokes fell big oaks, constant dripping wears the stone, constant dropping wears the stone, constant dripping will wear away a stone
English (LSJ)
Adv., Ep. for ἔμπας.
German (Pape)
[Seite 812] ion. = ἔμπας, w. m. s.
Greek (Liddell-Scott)
ἔμπης: ἐπίρρ. Ἐπ. ἀντὶ τοῦ ἔμπας.
French (Bailly abrégé)
ion. et épq. c. ἔμπας.
English (Autenrieth)
wholly, nevertheless; the former meaning is denied by some scholars, and there are but very few passages to which the latter meaning is not applicable, e. g. Od. 18.354, Od. 19.37; in its common signif. of still, yet, nevertheless, ἔμπης may be placed after the concessive part. (precisely like ὅμως in Att.), and freq. at the end of the verse, though grammatically and in sense belonging to the leading verb; Τρωσὶ μὲν εὐκτὰ γένηται (ἐπικρατέουσι περ) ἔμπης, Ξ , Il. 9.518, etc. καὶ ἔμπης, Od. 5.205; ἀλλ' ἔμπης, Il. 8.33; δ ἔμπης correl. to μέν, Il. 1.562.
Spanish (DGE)
v. ἔμπας.
Greek Monolingual
Greek Monotonic
ἔμπης: Επικ. αντί ἔμπας.
Russian (Dvoretsky)
ἔμπης: эп.-ион. = ἔμπας.
