outweigh
From LSJ
φιλοσοφώτερον καὶ σπουδαιότερον ποίησις ἱστορίας ἐστίν: ἡ μὲν γὰρ ποίησις μᾶλλον τὰ καθόλου, ἡ δ' ἱστορία τὰ καθ' ἕκαστον λέγει → poetry is something more scientific and serious than history, because poetry tends to give general truths while history gives particular facts
English > Greek (Woodhouse)
verb transitive
See exceed.
be considered more important: use P. περὶ πλείονος νομίζεσθαι.
such a visitation of misfortune has come upon them as doubly to outweigh these (disasters): V. τοιάδ' ἐπ' αὐτοὺς ἦλθε συμφορὰ πάθους ὡς τοῖσδε καὶ δὶς ἀντισηκῶσαι ῥοπῇ (Aesch., Persae 436).
