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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.

English > Greek (Woodhouse)

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substantive

P. and V. ὀσφύς, ἡ (Xen., also Ar.).

Met., be sprung from the loins of: P. and V. σπείρεσθαι, ἐκ (gen.), or ἀπό (gen.) (Plato).