μόλις: Difference between revisions

|Definition=Adv., post-Hom. synonym of [[μόγις]], prevailing in Trag., Com., and Att. prose, though in Pl. and later prose [[μόγις]] was preferred (in A. the Laur. Ms. gives each form twice, the same Ms. of S. [[μόλις]] always); μόλις μέν, ἀλλ' ὅμως ἠνεσχόμην Ar.''Nu.'' 1363, cf. [[Sophocles|S.]]''[[Antigone|Ant.]]'' 290,1105, ''El.''575, ''Ph.''329; [[ζῶντι καὶ μάλα μόλις]] = [[nay, only just alive]], Pl. ''Tht.''142b (cod. W [[μόγις]]); [[μόλις καὶ ἠρέμα πάσχειν]] = [[scarcely at all affected]], [[scarcely or slightly affected]] [[Aristotle|Arist.]]''[[Metaphysics|Metaph.]]''1019a31 (cod. Ab [[μόγις]]); ἢ ὅλως οὐκ ἔστιν ἢ μόλις Id.''Ph.'' 217b32; μόλις πάνυ Eub.30; πάνυ μ. Philem.88.8: with a neg., [[οὐ μόλις]] = [[not scarcely]], i.e. [[quite]], [[utterly]], ἀπώλεσας οὐ μόλις [[Aeschylus|A.]]''[[Agamemnon|Ag.]]''1082; θυραῖος ἔστω πόλεμος, οὐ μόλις παρών Id.''Eu.''864 (where Sch. explains [[οὐ μόλις]] by [[οὐ μακράν]], but the sense is dub.); θέλουσαν οὐ μόλις καλεῖς E.''Hel.''334 (lyr.).

|btext=<i>adv.</i><br />avec peine, difficilement : [[οὐ]] [[μόλις]] sans peine;<br />[[NT]]: à peine.<br />'''Étymologie:''' DELG étym. incertaine.

|etymtx=Grammatical information: adv.<br />Meaning: [[hardly]] (trag., Att.).<br />Other forms: (Adv. = [[μόγις]].)<br />Origin: XX [etym. unknown]<br />Etymology: Etymologically ambiguous: if "with difficulty" to [[μῶλος]] <b class="b2">*trouble</b>, [[fight]] (with <b class="b3">-ο-</b> after [[μόγις]]?) or as "hesitating" to [[μέλλω]] [[to be about to do]], [[hesitate etc.]] or as "(only) with power" to [[μάλα]] [[very]]? Solmsen Wortforsch. 169ff., also WP. 2, 291 a. 301 (Pok. 730(?) a. 746), W.-Hofmann s. [[mōlēs]].

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