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καλῶς δρῶν ἐξαμαρτεῖν μᾶλλον ἢ νικᾶν κακῶς → I would prefer to fail with honor than to win by evil | I prefer to fail by acting rightly rather than win by acting wrongly | Better fail by doing right, than win by doing wrong (Sophocles, Philoctetes 95)

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Μὴ ἐλπίζετε θησαυροῖς εὐδαίμονας ἔσεσθαι

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λογάδην → picked, of troops

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εἰ γὰρ νῦν εἰς τὴν χώραν μή ᾔεισθα, ὦ αἴσχιστε.

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ἀγαθῇ τύχῃ → with good fortune, blessings on us all, by God's help, may it be with good fortune

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Ἐρωτώμενος διὰ τί ὀλίγους ἔχει μαθητάς, ἔφη ὅτι ἀργυρέᾳ αὐτοὺς ἐκβάλλω ῥάβδῳ → When asked why he had so few pupils, he replied ‘I chase them away with a silver stick (Diogenes Laertius 6.4.5, on the philosopher Antisthenes)

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Ψηλά → Ὑψοῦ

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οὔτοι συνέχθειν, ἀλλὰ συμφιλεῖν ἔφυν → I was not born to hate, but to love | Tis not my nature to join in hating, but in loving (Sophocles, Antigone 523)

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οὕτως εἴη ἡμίν ὁ Θεός βοηθός καὶ τὸ ἱερὸν Αὐτοῦ Εὐαγγέλιον ὧδε ἐμφανισθέντα-ὁρκισθέντα → so help us God and Ηis holy Gospel the things here declared and sworn

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εἰς ὁδόν ἐθνῶν μὴ ἀπέλθητε → go not into the way of the Gentiles (Matthew 10:5)

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διὸ καὶ μεταλάττουσι τὴν φυσικὴν χρῆσιν εἰς τὴν παρὰ φύσιν αἱ δοκοῦσαι παρθένοι τῶν εἰδώλων → therefore those professing to be virgins of the idols even change the natural use into the unnatural (Origen, commentary on Romans 1:26)

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λῦσόν με , ἑταῖρε. οὐ γάρ σε οὑδέν ἔβλαψα.

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ἤκουσεν ἐν Ῥώμῃ καὶ ἀρσένων ἑταιρίαν εἶναι → he heard that there was also a fellowship of males in Rome (Severius, commentary on Romans 1:27)

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ὦ ἀδελφοί, παύεσθε τρόπαια πρὸ τῆς μεγάλης οἰϰίας ἱστάμενοι.

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Pronouncing Iliad 1.1-7

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αἶρα → darnel

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ἐπάμεροι· τί δέ τις; τί δ' οὔ τις; σκιᾶς ὄναρ ἄνθρωπος → Neverlasting: What is a somebody? What is a nobody? You are a dream of a shadow | Creatures of a day. What is a someone, what is a no one? Man is the dream of a shade.

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ἐδιζησάμην ἐμεωυτόν → I searched myself, I searched into myself, I searched out myself, I went in search of myself, I explored myself, I sought myself (Heraclitus, fr. 101B)

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περί τοῦ πέρδεσθαι οὐ καταισχύνει, πάντων γὰρ περδομένων → as for the farting, he causes no shame, because everybody farts

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ἔκβαλε πρῶτον ἐκ τοῦ ὀφθαλμοῦ σοῦ τὴν δοκόν, καὶ τότε διαβλέψεις ἐκβαλεῖν τὸ κάρφος ἐκ τοῦ ὀφθαλμοῦ τοῦ ἀδελφοῦ σου –> first take the plank out of your own eye, and then you will see clearly to remove the speck from your brother's eye

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