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hintansetzen

From LSJ

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.

German > Latin

hintansetzen, postponere od. posthabere od. postferre alqd alci rei. posteriorem alqam rem ducere alci rei (nachsetzen). – omittere. relinquere alqd (beiseite setzen, aufgeben). – derelinquere, deserere alqd (vernachlässigen, unrechter- u. schmählicherweise hintansetzen). – neglegere (außer acht lassen). – repudiare alqd (verschmähen, z.B. gratiam alcis, morem patrium).