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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.

English > Greek (Woodhouse)

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v. trans.

P. ἀνατίθεσθαι, P. and V. ἐκβάλλειν; see unsay. I retract my former words: V. καὶ τῶν παλαιῶν ἐξαφίσταμαι λόγων (Eur., I.A. 479). Absol., P. ἀνατίθεσθαι.