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τὸ δὲ ποιεῖν ἄνευ νοῦ ἃ δοκεῖ καὶ σὺ ὁμολογεῖς κακὸν εἶναι: ἢ οὔ –> but doing what one thinks fit without intelligence is—as you yourself admit, do you not?—an evil

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ἐξ ἀνθρώπων γίγνεσθαι → depart this life

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σὺν τῷ χρόνῳ προϊόντι → in the course of time, over time, in time, in due time, in due course, with time

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ἱματιοφορίς → portmanteau, clothes hanger;

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τυφὼς γὰρ ἐκβαίνειν παρασκευάζεται → a hurricane is getting ready to burst

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ταράσσει τοὺς ἀνθρώπους οὐ τὰ πράγματα, ἀλλὰ τὰ περὶ τῶν πραγμάτων δόγματα –> what disturbs people is not what happens, but their view of what happens | it is not the things themselves that disturb men, but their judgements about these things

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γῆ θηρίοις μᾶλλον ἢ ἀνθρώποις σύμμετρος → region more fitting to beasts than men

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ἔφερον ὑφ' ἥπατος → I carried you in my womb

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Ἔρως, ὅ κατ' ὀμμάτων στάζεις πόθον –> Eros who drips desire into the eyes

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δι' ἐρημίας πολεμίων πορευόμενος → he marched on without finding any enemy, his route lay through a country bare of enemies

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διὸ δὴ πᾶς ἀνὴρ σπουδαῖος τῶν ὄντων σπουδαίων πέρι πολλοῦ δεῖ μὴ γράψας ποτὲ ἐν ἀνθρώποις εἰς φθόνον καὶ ἀπορίαν καταβαλεῖ → And this is the reason why every serious man in dealing with really serious subjects carefully avoids writing, lest thereby he may possibly cast them as a prey to the envy and stupidity of the public | Therefore every man of worth, when dealing with matters of worth, will be far from exposing them to ill feeling and misunderstanding among men by committing them to writing

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ἐν οἷς → among whom

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Καλοῖς μὲν λόγοις, ὦ ἄνδρες Ἀθηναῖοι, οὐχ οἷός τ' εἰμι λέγειν, ἀληθείᾳ δ' ἴσως. Τοῖς μέντοι ὑπὸ τῶν κατηγόρων λεχθεῖσιν οὐδαμῶς πιστεύω.

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ἐν τῷ θέρει τὴν χλαῖναν κατατρίβων → wearing out one's cloak in summertime

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ἔστιν δέ που ἡ μὲν ἐπὶ σώμασι γυμναστική, ἡ δ' ἐπὶ ψυχῇ μουσική –> I think I am right in saying that we have physical exercise for the body and the arts for the soul

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οὐκ ἔστι λύπης ἄλγημα μεῖζον → there is no greater pain than grief

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ὅνος λύρας ἀκούει κινῶν τά ὦτα → a donkey hears the lyre and wiggles its ears, caviar to the general

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κύνα δέρειν δεδαρμένην → flog a dead horse, flay a skinned dog

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φωνὰ τύ τίς ἐσσι καὶ οὐδὲν ἄλλο → it's all voice you are, and nothing else | it's all voice ye are, and nought else

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θέλξειν μ' ἔοικας → methinks you will win my heart, it seems likely that you will win my heart, you are winning me over with spells

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