ἄμεσος
Ubi idem et maximus et honestissimus amor est, aliquando praestat morte jungi, quam vita distrahi → Where indeed the greatest and most honourable love exists, it is much better to be joined by death, than separated by life.
English (LSJ)
ον,
A immediate: ἄμεσα καὶ ἀναπόδεικτα, of propositions that cannot be proved syllogistically by means of a middle term, Arist.APr. 68b30, APo.72b19, etc.; τὰ ἄ. τῶν ἐναντίων direct opposites, Plot.6.3.20. Adv. ἀμέσως immediately, Olymp. in Phlb.p.256 S., Alex.Aphr. in Metaph.162.19, Procl.Inst.30, dub. in Phld. Herc.1251.3. ἀμεσότης, τητος, ἡ, immediacy, Eustr.in APo.176.4. ἀμέσω· ὠμοπλάται, Hsch. (cf. Lat. umerus, Goth. ams-).
German (Pape)
[Seite 122] ohne etwas mittleres, τὰ ἄμ., in der Dialektik, die unvermittelten Gegensätze, Arist. Anal. pr. 2. 23; Luc. hist. conscr. 32. – Adv. -σως, unmittelbar, Sp.
Greek (Liddell-Scott)
ἄμεσος: -ον, ὁ ἄνευ μεσολαβήσεως ἑτέρου· ἄμεσα καὶ ἀναπόδεικτα, ἐπὶ προτάσεων ἃς δὲν δύναταί τις νὰ ἀποδείξῃ διὰ συλλογισμῶν τῇ χρήσει τοῦ μέσου ὅρου, Ἀριστ. Ἀναλυτ. Πρότερα 2. 23, 4., 1. 3, 2, κτλ. Ἐπίρρ. ἀμέσως = ἄνευ τῆς μεσολαβήσεως πράγματός τινος, εὐθύς, Συλλ. Ἐπιγρ. 9539, Ὀλυμπιόδ.
French (Bailly abrégé)
ος, ον :
immédiat.
Étymologie: ἀ, μέσος.
