ἔκταμα
τὸ πεπρωμένον φυγεῖν ἀδύνατον → you can't escape your destiny | there is no escaping from destiny | it's impossible to escape from what is destined | it is impossible to escape from what is destined | what is fated is impossible to escape | if you're born to be hanged, then you'll never be drowned | he that is born to be hanged shall never be drowned | if you are born to be hanged then you'll never be drowned | if you're born to be hanged then you'll never be drowned| you can't outrun your fate | you cannot outrun your fate | you can't stop fate | that's the way the cookie crumbles
English (LSJ)
ατος, τό,
A extent, length, Sch.Ar.Nu.2, Suid.s.v. πῆχυς. 2 gloss on ὄρεγμα, Sch.E.Ph.308.
German (Pape)
[Seite 779] τό, das Ausgedehnte, die Ausdehnung, Schol. Ar. Nubb. 2 u. A.
Greek (Liddell-Scott)
ἔκτᾰμα: τό, ἔκτασις, μῆκος, Σχόλ. εἰς Ἀριστοφ. Νεφ. 2.
Spanish (DGE)
-ματος, τό
1 concr. pieza extendida τὸ ἐκτείνεσθαι τὸν οὐρανὸν ὥσπερ τι ἔ. ἐν χερσὶ τεχνίτου como explicación de un texto bíbl., Ath.Al.M.27.436B.
2 abstr. extensión c. valor espacial τὸ ἔ. τοῦ ἑνὸς τοίχου στάδιοι ιγ Cat.Gen.839, Iubil.y (p.88), τὸ ἔ. ... τῆς παρειᾶς glosa a παρηίδων τ' ὄρεγμα Sch.E.Ph.307, cf. Sch.Er.Il.19.267c, Sud.s.u. πῆχυς
•c. valor temp., Sch.Ar.Nu.2c.
