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αἴτιός τοι τῆς τῶν Ἑλλήνων νίκης ὁ τῶν βαρβάρων ἡγεμών. οὑ γὰρ δὴ ἧκεν ἐν καιρῷ παρὰ τοὺς ἐν τῷ πεδίῳ καίπερ τὴν πόλιν λιπὼν ἅμα τῇ ἡμέρᾳ ὥστε ὁ στρατὸς σύμπας ἐξενικήθη. τοῦ δὲ στρατοῦ νικηθέντος, παύσατε τὸν πόλεμον.

Started by jmorsay

δὶς ἐξαμαρτεῖν ταὐτὸν οὐκ ἀνδρὸς σοφοῦ -> a wise man should not keep making the same mistake, a wise man should not repeat the same mistake, doing twice the same mistake is not a wise man's doing, making the same mistake twice does not befit the wise, making the same mistake twice does not belong to a man who is wise, making the same mistake twice does not belong to a wise man, the wise man does not make the same mistake twice, to commit the same sin twice is not a sign of a wise man

Started by billberg23

πότε ὑπέρ γε τούτων τῶν πόλεων τῷ τε πατρὶ τῶν θεῶv ...

Started by jmorsay

Ὅσον ζῇς, φαίνου, μηδὲν ὅλως σὺ λυποῦ· πρὸς ὀλίγον ἐστὶ τὸ ζῆν, τὸ τέλος ὁ χρόνος ἀπαιτεῖ. -> While you live, shine; have no grief at all; life exists only for a short while, and time demands its toll.

Started by Hijotiroles

Ὁ γεωργὸς λέγει τοῖς ἐταίροις τὴν κτῆσιν τῶν πελέκεων.

Started by menmech

πολλῶν δ' ἕνεκα οὐ φονεύσω αὐτόν, καὶ ὅτι ἐμοὶ αὐτῷ συγγενής ἐστιν ὁ παῖς, καὶ ὅτι ὁ Ἀστυάγης μὲν γέρων τ' ἐστὶ καὶ ἄπαις

Started by jmorsay

λογάδην -> picked, of troops

Started by spiros

γενηθήτω τὸ θέλημά Σου -> let your will be done, thy will be done (Matthew 6:10)

Started by hatu

εἰ μέντοι νόμον τελεῖτε βασιλικὸν κατὰ τὴν γραφήν, Ἀγαπήσεις τὸν πλησίον σου ὡς σεαυτόν, καλῶς ποιεῖτε -> Now if you're accomplishing the King’s Law according to scripture — Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself — you're doing the right thing (James 2:8)

Started by billberg23

ἀντιπεπονθός -> reciprocity, requital, suffering in turn, karma;

Started by spiros

Ἀντείας -> founder of Antium

Started by september

ῥεῖα δ' ἀρίζηλον μινύθει καὶ ἄδηλον ἀέξει, ῥεῖα δέ τ' ἰθύνει σκολιὸν καὶ ἀγήνορα κάρφει -> easily he humbles the proud and raises the obscure, and easily he straightens the crooked and blasts the proud (Hesiod, Works and Days 6-8)

Started by spiros

ὁ καὶ δυσὶ καὶ τρισὶ συμφωνοῦσιν ἐπὶ τῴ ὀνόματί σου

Started by menmech

τῶν ὅπλων καταβληθέντων, καὶ ἄνευ ἀσπίδος μάχου.

Started by jmorsay

προσεφέρθη -> offered himself

Started by Nona35

τοῦ αὐτοῦ γε ρήτορος ἐϰ τῆς νήσου ἥϰοντος αὑτοὶ ἠϰούσαμεν τάδε· Ἀϰούετε, ὦ πολῖται. ἐπειδὰν οἱ ταύτης τῆς γυναικὸς φονεῖς εἰς ἀγορὰν ἥϰωσι τὰ χρήματα λαβόντες, φόνου δίϰην γράψομαί πως αὐτοὺς πάντας.

Started by jmorsay

σοὶ μὲν παιδιὰν τοῦτ' εἶναι, ἐμοὶ δὲ θάνατον -> This is sport to you but death to me (Aristotle, "Eudemian Ethics" 1243a20)

Started by kingofnowhere

πότε τὴν θυγατέρα τῇ θεῷ ἔθυσεν ὁ βασιλεὺς ὅπως ἐξαγάγοι τὸν στρατόν;

Started by jmorsay

Ἀρδέας -> founder of Ardea

Started by spiros

IKSTOIASONAKROPADAKEYA

Started by stasis