offer vain and ruinous resistance
From LSJ
ἀκμὴ οὐδὲ ἔχει γενέσεως ὑπόστασιν καθ' ἑαυτήν → the culmination has no power of originating by itself
English > Greek (Woodhouse Extra)
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