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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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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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ὁ παῖς τὸν κρύσταλλον -> like the child with the ice, of persons who cannot keep a thing but do not wish to let it go

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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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ὑμέναιον ἄνορμον εἰσπλεῖν -> sail into a marriage that is no haven

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οὐ Χῖος, ἀλλὰ Κεῖος -> not a roguish Chian, but an honest Ceian | not a Chian, but a Ceian

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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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παρὰ ποδός -> off-hand, at once

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πεποιήσθω δή -> be it assumed then

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ἀπλήστως διακεῖσθαι -> be insatiate, be greedy, be insatiable

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σημεῖα καὶ τέρατα -> signs and wonders

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ὁ ἐπὶ τῷ ὀρύγματι -> the executioner, executioner

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εἰ δὲ τύχῃ τις ἔρδων, μελίφρον' αἰτίαν ῥοαῖσι Μοισᾶν ἐνέβαλε –> if someone is successful in his deeds, he casts a cause for sweet thoughts into the streams of the Muses

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θάνατον καταγνῶναί τινος -> pass sentence of death on one

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τὸν πάνθ' ὁρῶντα καὐτὸν οὐχ ὁρώμενον -> the all-seeing though himself unseen

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διαστρέφω τὴν ῥοπήν -> disturb the balance

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μέγας εἶ, Κύριε, καί θαυμαστά τά ἔργα σου -> Great are You, O Lord, and marvelous are Your works

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ὑγιέστερος ὄμφακος -> sound as a bell, hale and hearty, sound in wind and limb, in the pink of health, in the pink of condition, as right as rain, right as rain, picture of health, fit as a fiddle, as fit as a fiddle

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σὴ πίστις -> given in trust to thee

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ἐκ περιουσίας -> out of the abundance, on one's own resources, from a position of advantage, from a position of strength

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