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Ἑκὼν σεαυτὸν τῇ Κλωθοῖ συνεπιδίδου παρέχων συννῆσαι οἷστισί ποτε πράγμασι βούλεται. Πᾶν ἐφήμερον, καὶ τὸ μνημονεῦον καὶ τὸ μνημονευόμενον → Be willing to give yourself up to Clotho, letting her spin to whatever ends she pleases. All is ephemeral—both memory and the object of memory (Marcus Aurelius 4.34f.)

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Μηκέθ᾽ ὅλως περὶ τοῦ οἷόν τινα εἶναι τὸν ἀγαθὸν ἄνδρα διαλέγεσθαι, ἀλλὰ εἶναι τοιοῦτον. → Waste no more time arguing what a good man should be. Be one.

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Ὅτι οὐδὲν ἧττον τὰ αὐτὰ ποιήσουσι, κἂν σὺ διαρραγῇς –> You may break your heart, but men will still go on as before

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Πρόσεχε τῷ ὑποκειμένῳ ἢ τῇ ἐνεργείᾳ ἢ τῷ δόγματι ἢ τῷ σημαινομένῳ. → Look to the essence of a thing, whether it be a point of doctrine, of practice, or of interpretation.

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ξυμβεβυσμένος → crowded together, densely packed

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ὡς νῦν ἔχει → as it now stands, as it is now

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ἁδροτής → hardiness

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ἠνορέη → manhood, prowess, strength, force, manly beauty

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ἑτέρως ἠδύνατο βέλτιον ἢ ὡς νῦν ἔχει κατεσκευάσθαι → otherwise they could have been constructed better than they are now (Galen, "On the use of parts of the body" 4.143.1 Kühn)

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ἐφ' ὡμαλίαν → on average

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ὅσον ἀπὸ τοῦ ἱεροῦ ἐφεωρᾶτο τῆς νήσου → as much of the island as was in view from the temple

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καθ' υἱοθεσίαν → by adoption

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ἐπείγει γάρ με τοὐκ θεοῦ παρόν → the divine summons urges me | what has come from the god urges me | the power of the god is present, hurrying me on

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πρῶτον μὲν οὖν ὄστρεια παρὰ Νηρεῖ τινι ἰδὼν γέροντι φυκί ἠμφιεσμένα ἔλαβον ἐχίνους τ' ἐστὶ γὰρ προοίμιον δείπνου χαριέντως ταῦτα πεπρυτανευμένου –> So first I spotted oysters wrapped in seaweed at the shop of some old Nereus, and sea urchins, which I bought; these were the appetizers for a delightfully managed dinner

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ὦ ἄνδρες Ἀθηναῖοι → o men of Athens, Athenians

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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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ἔχεις δὲ τῶν κάτωθεν ἐνθάδ᾽ αὖ θεῶν ἄμοιρον, ἀκτέριστον, ἀνόσιον νέκυν → and you have kept here something belonging to the gods below, a corpse deprived, unburied, unholy | but keepest in this world one who belongs to the gods infernal, a corpse unburied, unhonoured, all unhallowed

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ἐξ ἁπαλῶν ὀνύχων → from the tender nail, from the earliest childhood, from early infancy, from childhood, right from the cradle, from a very young age, man and boy, since I was knee high to a grasshopper, from an early age, since childhood, since very young, from a tender age, since being a kid, from the tender nail, from the earliest childhood, since one was a baby

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πρότερον χελώνη παραδραμεῖται δασύποδα –> ere that, the tortoise shall outrun the hare | sooner will a tortoise outrun a rough-foot | sooner will a tortoise outrun a hare

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δασύποδα λαγὼν παραδραμεῖται χελώνη → the tortoise will outrun the hairy-footed hare

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