meanwhile
From LSJ
καλῶς δρῶν ἐξαμαρτεῖν μᾶλλον ἢ νικᾶν κακῶς → I would prefer to fail with honor than to win by evil | I prefer to fail by acting rightly rather than win by acting wrongly | Better fail by doing right, than win by doing wrong (Sophocles, Philoctetes 95)
English > Greek (Woodhouse)
adverb
in the interim: P. and V. τέως.
in the meanwhile: P. and V. ἐν τούτῳ. P. ἐν τῷ μεταξύ, V. ἐν τῷδε (Euripides, Phoenissae 285 and Iphigenia in Tauris 1379), τὰ μεταξὺ τούτου (Sophocles, Oedipus Coloneus 290).
