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. S.''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.).