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ἂν βούλησθε ἀκούειν καί μοι περιουσία ᾖ τοῦ ὕδατος -> if you care to hear and if the water in the water-clock holds out, if you care to hear and if I have time enough for speaking

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ἐξ ἴσου -> evenly, equally, in like measure, on a level with, on equal terms

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πρὸς κέντρα λακτίζειν -> kick against the pricks, kick against the goads, kick against the goad, offer vain and perilous resistance, offer vain and ruinous resistance

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ὅτι μέντοι καὶ ἡ χρῆσις τῶν τρόπων, ὥσπερ τἆλλα πάντα καλὰ ἐν λόγοις, προαγωγὸν ἀεὶ πρὸς τὸ ἄμετρον, δῆλον ἤδη, κἂν ἐγὼ μὴ λέγω –> however, it is also obvious, even without my saying so, that the use of figures of speech, like other literary adornments, is something that has always tempted toward excess

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ἆρον τὸν κράβαττόν σου καὶ περιπάτει -> take up thy bed and walk, take up your bed and walk, pick up your mat and walk

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κατὰ τὸν αὑτοῦ δαίμονα βιοῦν -> live under the direction of his own guiding spirit

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ἀγροῦ πλέως -> boorish, full of rusticity

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δειλότερος λαγὼ Φρυγός -> more timid than a Phrygian hare

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ᾤχετο ἀπιών -> vanished, disappeared, disappeared into thin air, vanished into thin air

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ἐπὶ ξυροῦ γὰρ ἀκμῆς ἔχεται ἡμῖν τὰ πρήγματα -> our affairs are balanced on a razor's edge, our affairs are set upon the razor's edge

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οὐ βούλομαι δυσχερὲς εἰπεῖν οὐδὲν ἀρχόμενος τοῦ λόγου, οὗτος δ' ἐκ περιουσίας μου κατηγορεῖ –> for me—but I wish to say nothing untoward at the beginning of my speech—whereas he prosecutes me from a position of advantage | but for me—I do not wish to say anything harsh at the beginning of the speech, but he prosecutes me from a position of strength

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τὰ γενόμενα ἐξ ἀνθρώπων -> things done by humans?

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καὶ τοσαύτῃ περιουσίᾳ χρήσασθαι πονηρίας -> in the veriest extravagance of malice

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ἐπιχυτήριον -> perfusorium?

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ὁκόταν οὖν ταῦτα πληρωθέωσιν, ἐμωρώθη ἡ καρδίη· εἶτα ἐκ τῆς μωρώσιος νάρκη· εἶτ’ ἐκ τῆς νάρκης παράνοια ἔλαβεν -> now when these parts are filled, the heart becomes stupefied, then from the stupefaction numb, and finally from the numbness these women become deranged

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κλέος ἔπραξεν -> won a good reputation

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εἰ δὲ τύχῃ τις ἔρδων, μελίφρον' αἰτίαν ῥοαῖσι Μοισᾶν ἐνέβαλε –> if someone is successful in his deeds, he casts a cause for sweet thoughts into the streams of the Muses

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βραχεῖ λόγῳ δὲ πολλὰ πρόσκειται σοφά -> there is much wisdom to be found in few words

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περὶ ἀτόμων γραμμῶν -> οn indivisible lines

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θεοξένια -> theoxenia, festival in honour of Apollo at Pellene, festival in honour of the Dioscuri at Agrigentum

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