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διστακτικός

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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.
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English (LSJ)

ή, όν,

   A expressive of doubt, ἔγκλισις, of the subjunctive, Sch.D.T.p.245H., cf. A.D. Synt.264.18. Adv. διστ-κῶς Sch.E.Or.632, Sch.Il.1.100.