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οὐ γὰρ αὐθάδης οὐδ' ἐπαχθής ὁ χρηστός, οὐδ' αὐθέκαστος ἐστιν ὁ σώφρων ἀνήρ –> the man of value is not arrogant or insufferable, and the wise man is not a smug

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φέρουσα κατακρύπτει ἐς τὸ ἀφραστότατόν οἱ ἐφαίνετο εἶναι → wherefore she bore it away and hid it where she thought it would be hardest to find

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οἵας ἐλπίδας ἐξέταμες → you cut short such great expectations

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κατακεχυμένος ζωμός → sauce in oille | pot au feu | dish compounded of fish, flesh, fowl, and sauces

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τὸ μὴ γὰρ εἶναι κρεῖσσον ἢ τὸ ζῆν κακῶς → for it is better not to exist than to live in misery

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φύγεν ἄσμενος ἐκ θανάτοιο → he was glad to have escaped death

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τί γὰρ καλὸν ζῆν βίοτον, ὃς λύπας φέρει –> for what good is there to live a life that brings pain

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μέχρι δὲ τούτου θεοῖσι εἰδέναι χάριν → but until that time he should feel gratitude to the gods

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Ὅμηρον ἐξ Ὁμήρου σαφηνίζειν → explain Homer from Homer, explain Homer with Homer

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τὸ παράπαν οὐδέν → not at all

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ὡς οὐδὲν γλύκιον ἧς πατρίδος οὐδὲ τοκήων γίνεται, εἴ περ καί τις ἀπόπροθι πίονα οἶκον γαίῃ ἐν ἀλλοδαπῇ ναίει ἀπάνευθε τοκήων –> More than all pleasures that were ever made parents and fatherland our life still bless. Though we rich home in a strange land possess, still the old memories about us cling.

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ἀνδρεία ἀγορά → men's market

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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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αὐτοτραγικὸς πίθηκος → a very ape of tragedy, tragic-ape, monkey of melodrama, drama-queen of an ape

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οὐκ ἂν λάβοις παρὰ τοῦ μὴ ἔχοντος → you can't take from one who doesn't have, you can't squeeze blood out of a turnip, you can't get blood out of a turnip, you can't get blood from a stone, you can't get blood out of a stone

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ἡ φιλία περιχορεύει τὴν οἰκουμένην → friendship runs all over the earth

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εἰς πῦρ ξαίνειν → labour in vain, labor in vain, card wool into the fire

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ἡμῶν δ' ὅσα καὶ τὰ σώματ' ἐστὶ τὸν ἀριθμὸν καθ' ἑνός, τοσούτους ἔστι καὶ τρόπους ἰδεῖν –> whatever number of persons there are, the same will be found the number of minds and of characters

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ἐν πότοις καὶ συνουσίαις → with drinking and social enjoyment, in drinking-bouts

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κριὸς τροφεῖα ἀπέτεισεν → ingratitude, a ram butts at those who have brought him up, that's how a ram pays for his upbringing, a ram pays for his upbringing

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