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γαῖαν ἔχοις ἐλαφράν → may the earth rest lightly on you, may the ground be light to you, may the earth be light to you

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σημεῖα καὶ τέρατα → signs and wonders

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ἐγγύα, πάρα δ' ἄτα –> a pledge, and thereupon perdition

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ἀπλήστως διακεῖσθαι → be insatiate, be greedy, be insatiable

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τὰ πρὸ Εὐκλείδου ἐξετάζειν → investigate what happened before the flood, investigate what happened in the distant past, investigate what happened before Euclid, investigate what happened before the year of Euclid

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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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περὶ πολλοῦ ποιέω → consider something of great importance

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ἡ εὐγένειά σου → your excellence

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ὃ γὰρ βούλεται, τοῦθ' ἕκαστος καὶ οἴεται → what he wishes to be true, each person also believes to be true | what he wishes, each person also believes

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τὸ μᾶλλον καὶ ἧττον → a fortiori, with greater reason, with more convincing force, the more and the less, the more likely and the less likely

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μὴ δὶς πρὸς τὸν αὐτὸν λίθον πταίειν → do not stumble twice on the same stone

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ὁ δομήτωρ οὐρανού → the architect of the cosmos, the architect of the heavens, the architect of the universe, God

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ὁμοιωθείς → one who has become like, one who has become equal

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ὡς ἔπος εἰπεῖν → almost, as the saying is, for instance, not to make a short matter long, one may say, practically, roughly speaking, so to say, so to speak, to say it in a word, to use a figure of speech, we may say, what is more

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ἄνερρε → away with you, get lost, buzz off, on yer bike, bug off, bugger off, clear out, clear off, take a hike, beat it, scram, get out of here, get outta here

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ταῦτα δὲ ἔδει ποιῆσαι κἀκεῖνα μὴ ἀφιέναι → these things should have been done without neglecting the others | these are the things you should have done without neglecting the others | these ought ye to have done, and not to leave the other undone

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γυνὴ ἱματισμένη ἔχιδνα → woman is a viper in clothes

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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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ὥστε πλείους ἢ χιλίας ἱεροδούλους ἐκέκτητο ἑταίρας –> it owned more than a thousand temple-slaves, courtesans

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Τίς, ξένος ὦ ναυηγέ; Λεόντιχος ἐνθάδε νεκρὸν εὗρέ σ᾿ ἐπ᾿ αἰγιαλοῦ, χῶσε δὲ τῷδε τάφῳ, δακρύσας ἐπίκηρον ἑὸν βίον· οὐδὲ γὰρ αὐτὸς ἥσυχος, αἰθυίῃ δ᾿ ἶσα θαλασσοπορεῖ. → Who art thou, shipwrecked stranger? Leontichus found thee here dead on the beach, and buried thee in this tomb, weeping for his own uncertain life; for he also rests not, but travels over the sea like a gull.

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