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τῇ βασιλέως θυγατρὶ ἐδήλου ὁ ποιητὴς τὰ ποιήματα τὰ περὶ τῆς φύσεως γεγραμμένα.

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τῇ γαστρὶ μετροῦντες καὶ τοῖς αἰσχίστοις τὴν εὐδαιμονίαν -> measuring happiness by appetite and base desires

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τῇ διατάξει σου διαμένει ἡ ἡμέρα ὅτι τὰ σύμπαντα δοῦλα σά -> the day continues by thy arrangement; for all things are thy servants

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τὴν ἀξίην [εὐεργεσίην] λαβεῖν -> get one's just deserts, get one's deserts

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Τὴν ἀρχὴν ὅ, τι καὶ λαλω̃ ὑμι̃ν (John 8:25) -> Just what I have been saying to you from the very beginning

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τὴν αὐτοκράτορα ἀρχὴν περινοέω -> meditate empire

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τὴν ἐλευθερίαν πᾶσι τοῖς Ἕλλησι παρέσχεν

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τὴν πολιὴν καλέω Νέμεσιν πόθου, ὅττι δικάζει ἔννομα ταῖς σοβαραῖς θᾶσσον ἐπερχομένη –> I call gray hairs the Nemesis of love, because they judge justly, coming sooner to the proud

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τὴν πρὶν ἐνεσφρήγισσεν Ἔρως θρασὺς εἰκόνα μορφῆς ἡμετέρης θερμῷ βένθεϊ σῆς κραδίης -> the image of my beauty that bold Love earlier stamped in the hot depths of your heart

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τὴν τοῦ σώματος αἰσχύνην -> the nakedness of the body, the nakedness of his body

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τῆς αἰδοῦς ὀλίγην ποιήσασθαι φειδώ -> to have little consideration for self-respect

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τῆς αὐτῆς νυκτὸς αὐτὸς ὁ Δημοσθένης οἷα ἐκ κινδύνων σωθείς κήρυκα τῇ γε μητρὶ πέμψαι ἐβουλήθη ...

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τῆς δ' ἀρετῆς ἱδρῶτα θεοὶ προπάροιθεν ἔθηκαν ἀθάνατοι (Hesiod, Works and Days 289) -> But between us and Goodness the gods have placed the sweat of our brows

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τί δὲ βλέπεις τὸ κάρφος τὸ ἐν τῷ ὀφθαλμῷ τοῦ ἀδελφοῦ σου, τὴν δὲ ἐν τῷ σῷ ὀφθαλμῷ δοκὸν οὐ κατανοεῖς; -> Why do you look at the speck of sawdust in your brother's eye and pay no attention to the plank in your own eye? (Matthew 7:3)

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Τὶ δὲ σὺ διά τὸν Θεὸν δύνασαι ἀρνηθῆναι; Οἷον δὲ μέτρον ἀγάπης τῶν ἀγαπώντων σε ἐστί; (Χρύσανθος Καταπόδης, ''Σχολὴ Ζωῆς'') -> ?

Started by RKAT

τί ἦ μοι ταῦτα περὶ δρῦν ἢ περὶ πέτρην –> but what is this to me, about an oak or a rock | but what are these things about a tree or a rock to me | why all this about trees and rocks | why all this about what we have nothing to do with | but why am I off on this tangent

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τί σὺ ποιήσεις τὴν πόλιν ἑλών;

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τίκτει γὰρ κόρος ὕβριν, ὅταν πολὺς ὄλβος ἕπηται ἀνθρώποις ὁπ̣όσοις μὴ νόος ἄρτιος ἦι -> satiety breeds arrogance whenever men with unfit minds have great wealth

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τίκτει τοι κόρος ὕβριν, ὅταν κακῷ ὄλβος ἕπηται ἀνθρώπῳ καὶ ὅτῳ μὴ νόος ἄρτιος ᾖ -> satiety engenders hybris when great prosperity attends on a base man or one whose mind is not set up right

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τίνας ἀπέκτεινας, ὦ ἀφρονεστάτη θύγατερ; -> You are completely out of your mind, daughter! Who are those you have killed?

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