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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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τὰ ἐκ περιουσίας -> superfluities

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ζῆν ἐκ περιουσίας -> live on one's own resources

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ἐκ περιουσίας ζῆν -> live on one's own resources

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ἡδονὴ μὲν γὰρ ἁπάντων ἀλαζονίστατον -> pleasure is the greatest of impostors, pleasure is the most shameless thing of all

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οὕτως ἐξ ἐχθρῶν αὐτοκτόνα πέμπετο δῶρα, ἐν χάριτος προφάσει μοῖραν ἔχοντα μόρου –> thus mutual gifts that bring death were bestowed by enemies, gifts that brought the lot of death in the name of a favor

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ἄνδρες τεθνᾶσιν ἐκ χερῶν αὐτοκτόνων -> the men are dead, murdered by their very own hands | dead are our chiefs by fratricidal hands | by kindred hands and mutual murder slain | their hands have killed each other

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αὐτοκτόνα δῶρα -> gifts that bring death

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θάνατος αὐτοκτόνος -> mutual death by each other's hand

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χεὶρ αὐτοκτόνος -> self-slaying hand, Medea

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εἰς δὲ θεοὺς ἀσεβείας τε καὶ εὐσεβείας καὶ γονέας καὶ αὐτόχειρος φόνου μείζους ἔτι τοὺς μισθοὺς διηγεῖτο -> and he had still greater requitals to tell of piety and impiety towards the gods and parents and of self-slaughter

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τούτου μὲν τοῦ ἀνθρώπου ἐγὼ σοφώτερός εἰμι -> I am wiser than this man

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κινδυνεύει μὲν γὰρ ἡμῶν οὐδέτερος οὐδὲν καλὸν κἀγαθὸν εἰδέναι, ἀλλ᾽ οὗτος μὲν οἴεταί τι εἰδέναι οὐκ εἰδώς, ἐγὼ δέ, ὥσπερ οὖν οὐκ οἶδα, οὐδὲ οἴομαι· ἔοικα γοῦν τούτου γε σμικρῷ τινι αὐτῷ τούτῳ σοφώτερος εἶναι, ὅτι ἃ μὴ οἶδα οὐδὲ οἴομαι εἰδέναι. -> for neither of us appears to know anything great and good; but he fancies he knows something, although he knows nothing; whereas I, as I do not know anything, so I do not fancy I do. In this trifling particular, then, I appear to be wiser than he, because I do not fancy I know what I do not know.

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καὶ νῦν περὶ ἀρετῆς ὃ ἔστιν ἐγὼ μὲν οὐκ οἶδα, σὺ μέντοι ἴσως πρότερον μὲν ᾔδησθα πρὶν ἐμοῦ ἅψασθαι, νῦν μέντοι ὅμοιος εἶ οὐκ εἰδότι -> So now I do not know what virtue is; perhaps you knew before you contacted me, but now you are certainly like one who does not know

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ἔοικα γοῦν τούτου γε σμικρῷ τινι αὐτῷ τούτῳ σοφώτερος εἶναι, ὅτι ἃ μὴ οἶδα οὐδὲ οἴομαι εἰδέναι –> I seem, then, in just this little thing to be wiser than this man at any rate, that what I do not know I do not think I know either

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ἐν τῷ κάτω θώρακος χωρίῳ -> in the abdominal cavity, in the area below the thorax

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φελένη καὶ φάναξ καὶ φοῖκος καὶ φαήρ -> Ἑλένη καὶ ἄναξ καὶ οἶκος καὶ ἀήρ | Helen, lord, house, and air

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λινείαι -> flax workers, linen workers

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τά γε μὰν λίνα πάντα λελοίπει ἐκ Μοιρᾶν -> but all the thread granted him by the Fates had run out

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ὑπὲρ μόρον -> against fate

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