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ὥσπερ γὰρ ζώου τῶν ὄψεων ἀφαιρεθεισῶν ἀχρειοῦται τὸ ὅλον, οὕτως ἐξ ἱστορίας ἀναιρεθείσης τῆς ἀληθείας τὸ καταλειπόμενον αὐτῆς ἀνωφελὲς γίνεται διήγημα → for just as a living creature which has lost its eyesight is wholly incapacitated, so if history is stripped of her truth all that is left is but an idle tale | for, just as closed eyes make the rest of an animal useless, what is left from a history blind to the truth is just a pointless tale
English > Greek (Woodhouse)
verb transitive
exalt: P. and V. μεγαλύνειν (Euripides, Bacchae 320); see exalt.
celebrate in song: P. and V. ὑμνεῖν, ᾄδειν.
exaggerate: P. μεγαλύνειν, τῷ λόγῳ αἴρειν, ἄνω ἐξαίρειν, ἐπὶ τὸ μεῖζον δεινοῦν, P. and V. κοσμεῖν, Ar. and V. πυργοῦν.
