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ἀφράστως

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Ἓν οἶδα, ὅτι οὐδὲν οἶδα → I know only one thing, that I know nothing | all I know is that I know nothing.

Diogenes Laertius, Lives of the Philosophers, Book 2 sec. 32.

French (Bailly abrégé)

adv.
sans réflexion, à l'improviste.
Étymologie: ἄφραστος.

Russian (Dvoretsky)

ἀφράστως: непредвиденно, неожиданно (ἀ. ἀέλπτως τε Soph.).