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Lysis
Plato · Diotimos Editions · 2026
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At a Glance
- The wordEpanapherō means carry back or refer onward to something else.
- In LysisThe future ἐπανοίσει describes what the proposed starting point will no longer do: refer the account to another friend.
- Reading contextThe verb is the passage’s actual language for that movement, rather than an unattested technical noun for infinite regress.
- A place to readThe Greek example means “Which will no longer refer on to another friend.”
- English renderings
- Carry back or refer onward to something else
Meaning
Carry back or refer onward to something else.
Grammatical category: verb.
Use in the book
The future ἐπανοίσει describes what the proposed starting point will no longer do: refer the account to another friend. It makes the regress concrete as movement from one object of concern to a further object for whose sake the first is valued.
The negation οὐκέτι is crucial. The desired starting point does not supply one more link in the same sequence; it stops this particular kind of referral. The verb is the passage’s actual language for that movement, rather than an unattested technical noun for infinite regress.
Places to read
- 219cἣ οὐκέτ’ ἐπανοίσει ἐπ’ ἄλλο φίλον — Which will no longer refer on to another friend.