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ἰητῆρ᾽ ἀγαθώ -> excellent doctors twain

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ἆρά γε λόγον ἔχει δυοῖν ἀρχαῖν, ὑλικῆς τε καὶ δραστικῆς -> does it in fact have the function of two principles, the material and the active?

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ἐρ<ω>ώμενον -> beloved

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ἀπὸ γλώσσης φράσω -> speak by heart

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ὁ ἄριστος ἐν ἀνθρώποις ὄρτυξ -> the best quail in the world

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αἱ δὲ χολωσάμεναι πηρὸν θέσαν -> but they in their wrath maimed him, but they in their wrath made him helpless, but they in their wrath made him blind

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ὁπλιτοδρόμος - ὁπλιτόδρομος / ὁπλιτοδρομία;

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ἀμβλύς εἰμι καὶ κατηρτυκὼς κακῶν -> I'm jaded and with much experience of evils

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πρὸς ἠοίων ἢ ἑσπερίων ἀνθρώπων -> from men of the east or of the west

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ἀνθρώπινόν τι παθεῖν -> die, suffer the fate of humans, go the way of all flesh

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ψυχῆς ἰατρεῖον -> hospital of the soul

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θεοὶ μὲν γὰρ μελλόντων, ἄνθρωποι δὲ γιγνομένων, σοφοὶ δὲ προσιόντων αἰσθάνονται –> because gods perceive future things, men what is happening now, but wise men perceive approaching things

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ἢ τοὺς πότους ἐρεῖς δῆλον ὅτι καὶ τὰ δεῖπνα καὶ ἐσθῆτα καὶ ἀφροδίσια, καὶ δέδιας μὴ τούτων ἐνδεὴς γενόμενος ἀπόλωμαι. οὐκ ἐννοεῖς δὲ ὅτι τὸ μὴ διψῆν τοῦ πιεῖν πολὺ κάλλιον καὶ τὸ μὴ πεινῆν τοῦ φαγεῖν καὶ τὸ μὴ ῥιγοῦν τοῦ ἀμπεχόνης εὐπορεῖν; -> There you'll go, talking of drinking and dining and dressing up and screwing, worrying I’ll be lost without all that. Don’t you realize how much better it is to have no thirst, than to drink? to have no hunger, than to eat? to not be cold, than to possess a wardrobe of finery? (Lucian, "On Mourning" 16)

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ἀφωνότερος τῶν ἰχθύων -> dumber than fish, speechless

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νῦ ἐφελκυστικόν -> ephelcystic nu, movable nu, movable N

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ἰατρεῖον ψυχῆς -> hospital of the soul

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οὐκ ἀνθρώπινος ἀμαθία -> super-human folly, monstrous folly

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ὅθι διπλόος ἤντετο θώρηξ -> where the cuirass met the buckle so as to be double

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φύλαξ ἀργυροῦς -> silver chain;

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ἄλλος οὗτος Ἡρακλῆς -> here is a second Hercules, a second Heracles, another Hercules, another Heracles

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