brink

English > Greek (Woodhouse)

substantive

edge: P. χεῖλος, τό.

Met., of danger, etc.: P. and V. ἀκμή, ἡ.

bethink you that you are on the brink of doom: V. φρόνει βεβὼς… ἐπὶ ξυροῦ τύχης (Sophocles, Antigone 996).

I have come to sorer trials than Ilium, yea, to the very brink of danger: V. κρείσσονας γὰρ Ἰλιου πόνους ἀφῖγμαι κἀπὶ κινδύνου βάθρα (Euripides, Cyclops 351).

yea, to the very brink of danger: V. ἀκμήν γ' ἐπ' αὐτήν (Euripides, Phoenissae 1081).

be on the brink of, v.: P. and V. μέλλειν (infin.), V. ἐπ' ἀκμῆς εἶναι (infin.).