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ἀγεωμέτρητος μηδεὶς εἰσίτω → no one ignorant of geometry may enter, let no one ignorant of geometry enter, let no one ignorant of geometry come in

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πάντα χωρεῖ καὶ οὐδὲν μένει καὶ δὶς ἐς τὸν αὐτὸν ποταμὸν οὐκ ἂν ἐμβαίης –> all things move and nothing remains still, and you cannot step twice into the same stream

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πένης ὢν τὴν γυναῖκα χρήματα λαβὼν ἔχει δέσποιναν, οὐ γυναῖκ' ἔτι –> a poor man getting rich turns his wife into his boss, not his wife any more

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γυμνὸς ὡς ἐκ μήτρας → in one's birthday suit, in the altogether, in Adam's suit, completely naked, as naked as the day he was born, naked as the day he was born, as naked as one was born, as naked as when one came into the world, as naked as one came into the world, starkers, butt naked

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ἀποθανέτω ψυχή μου μετὰ τῶν ἀλλοφύλων → I will be ruined together with the enemy, let me die with the Philistines

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παιδείαν δὲ πᾶσαν, μακάριε, φεῦγε τἀκάτιον ἀράμενος –> flee all education, raising up the top sail

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ποῖόν σε ἔπος φύγεν ἕρκος ὀδόντων → what a word has escaped the barrier of your teeth

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τὰ σῦκα σῦκα, τὴν σκάφην δὲ σκάφην ὀνομάζειν → call a spade a spade | speak the truth | speak straight from the shoulder | give it straight from the shoulder | give the straight goods | not to mince matters | not to mince words | not mince words | call things by their right names | call a spade a spade and a shovel a shovel | call a shovel a shovel | call a spade a spade, not a big spoon

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νέµουσι δ' οἴκους καὶ τὰ ναυστολούµενα ἔσω δόµων σῴζουσιν, οὐδ' ἐρηµίᾳ γυναικὸς οἶκος εὐπινὴς οὐδ' ὄλβιος –> they manage households, and save what is brought by sea within the home, and no house deprived of a woman can be tidy and prosperous | They manage the home, and guard within the house the sea-borne wares. No house is clean or prosperous if the wife is absent.

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ὥσπερ γὰρ ζώου τῶν ὄψεων ἀφαιρεθεισῶν ἀχρειοῦται τὸ ὅλον, οὕτως ἐξ ἱστορίας ἀναιρεθείσης τῆς ἀληθείας τὸ καταλειπόμενον αὐτῆς ἀνωφελὲς γίνεται διήγημα –> for just as a living creature which has lost its eyesight is wholly incapacitated, so if history is stripped of her truth all that is left is but an idle tale | for, just as closed eyes make the rest of an animal useless, what is left from a history blind to the truth is just a pointless tale

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ὅσα ψάμαθός τε κόνις τε → as many as sand and dust

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νῆα μὲν οἵ γε μέλαιναν ἐπ' ἠπείροιο ἔρυσσαν ὑψοῦ ἐπὶ ψαμάθοις, ὑπὸ δ' ἕρματα μακρὰ τάνυσσαν → they pushed the black ship up over the sand onto dry land and placed long beams under her

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οὐδὲν γάρ ἐστι κεκαλυμμένον ὃ οὐκ ἀποκαλυφθήσεται → there is nothing hidden that will not be revealed, there is nothing concealed that will not be revealed, there is nothing covered that shall not be revealed, there is nothing covered that won't be uncovered

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ἡδονήν, μέγιστον κακοῦ δέλεαρ –> pleasure, the greatest incitement to evildoing | pleasure, a most mighty lure to evil | pleasure, the great bait to evil

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δός μοι πᾷ στῶ καὶ τὰν γᾶν κινήσω → give me a place to stand and I will move the earth, give me a place to stand and I'll move the earth, give me the place to stand and I shall move the earth, give me a place to stand and with a lever I will move the whole world, give me a firm spot to stand and I will move the world, give me a lever and a place to stand and I will move the earth, give me a fulcrum and I shall move the world

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ἢ τάπερ πάθομεν ἄχεα πρός γε τῶν τεκομένων –> the pains which we have suffered, and, indeed, from our own parent | the pains which we have suffered, and those even from the one who brought us into the world | the pains we have suffered, and from a parent, too

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πολλὰ δ' ἄναντα κάταντα πάραντά τε δόχμιά τ' ἦλθον –> and ever upward, downward, sideward, and aslant they went

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ψευδόμενος οὐδεὶς λανθάνει πολὺν χρόνον → nobody lies for a long time without being discovered

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τὸ μηδὲν εἰς οὐδὲν ῥέπει → nothing comes to nothing, what is nothing counts for nothing, what was thought to be nothing now inclines to be actually nothing, naught comes to naught

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καὶ ἤδη γε ἄπειμι παρὰ τὸν ἑταῖρον Κλεινίαν, ὅτι πυνθάνομαι χρόνου ἤδη ἀκάθαρτον εἶναι αὐτῷ τὴν γυναῖκα καὶ ταύτην νοσεῖν, ὅτι μὴ ῥεῖ. ὥστε οὐκέτι οὐδ' ἀναβαίνει αὐτήν, ἀλλ' ἄβατος καὶ ἀνήροτός ἐστιν –> and now I depart for my companion, Cleinias since I have learned that for some time now his wife is unclean and she is ill because she does not flow, therefore he no longer sleeps with her but she is unavailable and untilled

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