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French term or phrase:
la fortune sera immense
English translation:
which was to assume such a major role / was to become so important
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DLyons
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la fortune sera immense
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This is from a paragraph about Xenocrates. I don't quite get this turn of phrase:
Aussi n’est-il sans doute pas surprenant que Xénocrate ait été, selon Sextus Empiricus, le premier à clarifier l’idée, déjà présente implicitement dans Platon, d’une tripartition de la philosophie, idée dont ***la fortune hellénistique sera immense***
Aussi n’est-il sans doute pas surprenant que Xénocrate ait été, selon Sextus Empiricus, le premier à clarifier l’idée, déjà présente implicitement dans Platon, d’une tripartition de la philosophie, idée dont ***la fortune hellénistique sera immense***
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which was to assume such a major role / was to become so important
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French term (edited):
idée dont la fortune hellénistique sera immense
idea that will gain an immense success in the Hellenistic world
Aussi n’est-il sans doute pas surprenant que Xénocrate ait été, selon Sextus Empiricus, le premier à clarifier l’idée, déjà présente implicitement dans Platon, d’une tripartition de la philosophie, idée dont la fortune hellénistique sera immense
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which idea will gain an immense(/tremendous?) success in the Hellenistic world
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which idea will gain an immense(/tremendous?) success in the Hellenistic world
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Evgeny Artemov (X)
: "was to" instead of "will" would be closer to home, imo.
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possibly - thanks!
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a concept which proved hugely successful during the hellenistic period
Sometimes "une idée" is not "an idea" but "a concept" and it's the case here : "tripartition de la philosophie" is a concept.
and F "immense" is E "huge"
and F "immense" is E "huge"
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