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νῦν δ' ἐχθρὰ πάντα, καὶ νοσεῖ τὰ φίλτατα (Euripides' Medea 16) -> but now their love is all turned to hate, and endearment withers

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νῦν εὐπλόηκα, ὅτε νεναυάγηκα -> I made a prosperous voyage when I suffered shipwreck

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νὺξ μὲν ἐμὸν κατέχει ζωῆς φάος ὑπνοδοτείρη -> sleep-giving night hath quenched my light of life | sleep-giving night covers my light of life | night, the giver of sleep, holds the light of my life

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νήπιοι, οἷς ταύτῃ κεῖται νόος, οὐδὲ ἴσασιν ὡς χρόνος ἔσθ᾿ ἥβης καὶ βιότου ὀλίγος θνητοῖς. ἀλλὰ σὺ ταῦτα μαθὼν βιότου ποτὶ τέρμα ψυχῇ τῶν ἀγαθῶν τλῆθι χαριζόμενος -> fools, to think like that and not realise that mortals’ time for youth and life is brief: you must take note of this, and since you are near the end of your life endure, indulging yourself with good things | Poor fools they to think so and not to know that the time of youth and life is but short for such as be mortal! Wherefore be thou wise in time, and fail not when the end is near to give thy soul freely of the best.

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ξαίνω εἰς πῦρ -> labour in vain, labor in vain, card wool into the fire

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ξένος ὢν ἀκολούθει τοῖς ἐπιχωρίοις νόμοις -> as a foreigner, follow the laws of that country | when in Rome, do as the Romans do

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ξένους ξένιζε, καὶ σὺ γὰρ ξένος γ' ἔσῃ -> be hospitable to guests; you too will be a guest

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ξένωι δὲ σιγᾶν κρεῖττον ἢ κεκραγέναι -> it's better for a stranger to keep silence than to shout (Menander)

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ξύλινον τεῖχος -> wooden wall, wooden defensive wall

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ξύλον ἀγκύλον οὐδέποτ' ὀρθόν -> a bent board is never straight

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ξυμβεβυσμένος -> crowded together, densely packed

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ξύμμετρος ὡς κλύειν -> within fit distance for hearing, within hearing distance

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ξυνῆλθεν ἀτταγᾶς τε καὶ νουμήνιος -> birds of a feather flock together, the francolin and the new-moon bird get together

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ξύντροφον ὄμμα -> the eye of a companion, the presence of a companion

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ὁ ἄγχιστα ἀποθανών -> he who died last

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ὁ ἄνθρωπος φύσει πολιτικὸν ζῷον -> man is by nature a political animal

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

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ὁ γὰρ ἀποθανὼν δεδικαίωται ἀπὸ τῆς ἁμαρτίας -> anyone who has died has been set free from sin, the person who has died has been freed from sin, someone who has died has been freed from sin (Romans 6:7)

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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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Ὁ γεωργὸς λέγει τοῖς ἐταίροις τὴν κτῆσιν τῶν πελέκεων.

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