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What is this word and what is it doing?
ᾗ is the adverb here, which has a particular usage with a superlative. Liddell & Scott actually cite this exact passage:
III. with Sup., ᾗ ἐδύνατο τάχιστα as quickly as he could, X.An.1.2.4, etc.;...
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What is the correct way of referring, in Greek, to Theocritus' third Idyll?
Here is one reference to what we call Idyll VII from the Etymologicum Magnum:
Διεκρανώσατε: Σημαίνει τὸ ἀνεῴξατε. Παρὰ τὸ κάρα, διεκαρανώσατε. Καρανῶ, καὶ διακαρανῶ. Δοκεῖ γὰρ τῶν πίθων ἡ ἀλοιφὴ κάρα ...
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Four different greek words roughly translated as 'With' - I'm missing one?
Just to tack on to what Draconis said, μετά (similarly pronounced to the English "meta", but with a proper dental instead of a flap) can indeed mean "with" when it's used with a ...
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Four different greek words roughly translated as 'With' - I'm missing one?
I'm guessing the missing word was μετά (metá), which can mean "in the midst of", "by the aid of", "after", and many other things. (Greek prepositions are complicated!)
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