συντόμως
νεκρὸν ἐάν ποτ' ἴδηις καὶ μνήματα κωφὰ παράγηις κοινὸν ἔσοπτρον ὁρᾶις· ὁ θανὼν οὕτως προσεδόκα → whenever you see a body dead, or pass by silent tombs, you look into the mirror of all men's destiny: the dead man expected nothing else | if you ever see a corpse or walk by quiet graves, that's when you look into the mirror we all share: the dead expected this
French (Bailly abrégé)
adv.
1 en peu de mots;
2 en peu de temps;
Cp. συντομώτερον ou συντομωτέρως, Sp. συντομώτατα, συντομωτάτως.
Étymologie: σύντομος.
English (Strong)
adverb from a derivative of συντέμνω; concisely (briefly): a few words.
English (Thayer)
(συντέμνω) (from Aeschylus, Sophocles, Plato down), adverb, concisely i. e. briefly, in few words: ἀκοῦσαι τίνος, γράψαι, Josephus, contra Apion 1,1; διδάσκειν, ibid. 1,6, 2; (εἰπεῖν, ibid. 2,14, 1; ἐξαγγέλλειν, Mark 16 WH (rejected) 'Shorter Conclusion')); for examples from Greek writings see Passow (or Liddell and Scott) under the word, at the end.
