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"dative",
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]
},
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"dative",
"plural"
]
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"plural"
]
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"english": "in addition to both of these, [each of us] also [possesses] opinions about things that will happen, for which the usual name is \"expectation\", and a particular [name]: the expectation before pain is fear, while [expectation] before the opposite is courage",
"ref": "428 BCE – 347 BCE, Plato, Laws 644c",
"roman": "pròs dè toútoin amphoîn aû dóxas mellóntōn, hoîn koinòn mèn ónoma elpís, ídion dé, phóbos mèn hē prò lúpēs elpís, thárrhos dè hē prò toû enantíou",
"text": "πρὸς δὲ τούτοιν ἀμφοῖν αὖ δόξας μελλόντων, οἷν κοινὸν μὲν ὄνομα ἐλπίς, ἴδιον δέ, φόβος μὲν ἡ πρὸ λύπης ἐλπίς, θάρρος δὲ ἡ πρὸ τοῦ ἐναντίου"
}
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"ipa": "/elˈpis/"
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{
"ipa": "/elˈpis/",
"note": "1ˢᵗ CE Egyptian"
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{
"ipa": "/elˈpis/",
"note": "4ᵗʰ CE Koine"
},
{
"ipa": "/elˈpis/",
"note": "10ᵗʰ CE Byzantine"
},
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}
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"english": "in addition to both of these, [each of us] also [possesses] opinions about things that will happen, for which the usual name is \"expectation\", and a particular [name]: the expectation before pain is fear, while [expectation] before the opposite is courage",
"ref": "428 BCE – 347 BCE, Plato, Laws 644c",
"roman": "pròs dè toútoin amphoîn aû dóxas mellóntōn, hoîn koinòn mèn ónoma elpís, ídion dé, phóbos mèn hē prò lúpēs elpís, thárrhos dè hē prò toû enantíou",
"text": "πρὸς δὲ τούτοιν ἀμφοῖν αὖ δόξας μελλόντων, οἷν κοινὸν μὲν ὄνομα ἐλπίς, ἴδιον δέ, φόβος μὲν ἡ πρὸ λύπης ἐλπίς, θάρρος δὲ ἡ πρὸ τοῦ ἐναντίου"
}
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"ipa": "/elˈpis/"
},
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},
{
"ipa": "/elˈpis/",
"note": "1ˢᵗ CE Egyptian"
},
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"ipa": "/elˈpis/",
"note": "4ᵗʰ CE Koine"
},
{
"ipa": "/elˈpis/",
"note": "10ᵗʰ CE Byzantine"
},
{
"ipa": "/elˈpis/",
"note": "15ᵗʰ CE Constantinopolitan"
}
],
"word": "ἐλπίς"
}
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