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ὁ καὶ δυσὶ καὶ τρισὶ συμφωνοῦσιν ἐπὶ τῴ ὀνόματί σου

Started by menmech

ὁ κόσμος ἀλλοίωσις, ὁ βίος ὑπόληψις -> the universe is flux, life is opinion | the universe is transformation: life is opinion | the universe is change, life is a fleeting impression | the universe—mutation: life—opinion

Started by spiros

Ὁ κόσμος σκηνή, ὁ βίος πάροδος· ἦλθες, εἶδες, ἀπῆλθες -> The world is a stage, life is your entrance: you came, you saw, you departed (Democritus fr. 115 D-K)

Started by spiros

ὁ Κρὴς τὸν πόντον -> feign ignorance

Started by spiros

ὁ Κρὴς τὸν πόντον ἀγνοεῖ -> the Cretan knows nothing of the sea, feign ignorance

Started by spiros

Ο κύριος διδάσκει τους αποστόλους εν τω οίκω του Πέτρου και λέγει

Started by iPave

ὁ λαγὼς τὸν περὶ τῶν κρεῶν δρόμον τρέχει -> save one's bacon, save one's neck, save one's skin

Started by spiros

ὁ λαγὼς τὸν περὶ τῶν κρεῶν τρέχει -> save one's bacon, save one's neck, save one's skin

Started by spiros

Ὀ λίθος ἐστὶ σθένος -> The stone is strength

Started by mcmillan

Ὁ μὲν βίος βραχύς, ἡ δὲ τέχνη μακρή, ὁ δὲ καιρὸς ὀξύς, ἡ δὲ πεῖρα σφαλερή, ἡ δὲ κρίσις χαλεπή (Hippocrates, Aphorism 1.1) -> Life is short, [the] art long, opportunity fleeting, experience misleading and judgment difficult.

Started by feline_flirt

ὃ μὴ γένοιτο -> God forbid, Heaven forbid, knock on wood, knock wood, touch wood, perish the thought

Started by spiros

ὁ μὴ δαρεὶς ἄνθρωπος οὐ παιδεύεται -> spare the rod and spoil the child | οne who hasn't been flayed is not being taught | if the man was not beaten, he is not educated | the man, who was not paddled, is not educated

Started by spiros

ὁ νόμος βούλεται μὲν εὑεργετεῖν βίον ἀνθρώπων (Democritus) -> Law is meant to benefit human life

Started by LittleHaze

Ὁ οὖν Ἀστυάγης καλέσᾱς Ἅρπαγον, ἄνδρα οἰκεῖον καὶ πιστότατόν τε Μήδων καὶ πάντων ἐπίτροπον τῶν ἑαυτοῦ, ἔλεγεν αὐτῷ τοιάδε· Ἅρπαγε, τὸ πρᾶγμα ὃ ἄν σοι προσθῶ, μηδαμῶς παραχρήσῃ, μηδὲ ἐμέ τε παραβάλῃ καὶ ἄλλους ἑλόμενος ἐξ ὑστέρας σεαυτῷ περι-πέσῃς.

Started by jmorsay

ὁ ὄφις ὁ ἀρχαῖος: Lyrics from a song

Started by OpethSyndrome

ὁ πάντων προαγωγός -> the procurer of all things, God

Started by spiros

ὃ σὺ μισεῖς ἑτέρῳ μὴ ποιήσεις -> don't do to others what you don't want them to do to you

Started by RKAT

ὁ τῆς οὐσίας λόγος -> size of the estate, sum total of the estate, sum total of the inherited property, size of the inherited property, patrimonii modus, modus patrimonii

Started by spiros

ὁ τῆς σοφῆς λόγος ἄξιος τιμῆς τοῖς ἀνθρώποις

Started by Kurama

ὁ φίλος ἐστὶν ἄλλος αὐτός -> the friend is another self

Started by Jorsay