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ἀγαλλόμενος η[μεν] ἐνί Σπάρτῃ δεδιδαγμένος ἠδ’ ἐνί Βοίαις π[άντ]ας ἀκεστορίῃ... (inscription from Kythera) -> ... Educated in Sparta and Boiai, he outstripped all in the practice of medicine ...

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αἵ τε γὰρ συμφοραὶ ποιοῦσι μακρολόγους -> For, in addition, our misfortunes make us long-winded (Appian, Libyca 389.3)

Started by Kurama

θαύματα μωροῖς -> miracles for fools

Started by deleyd

ἀγάπην -> love, charity

Started by bob144

ἀγωνίζεσθαι, ἐπιζητεῖν, εὑρίσκειν καί μή εἴκειν -> to strive, to seek, to find, and not to yield (Tennyson, "Ulysses")  

Started by Ephialtes

Οὗτος Ἰουστῖνον καὶ Νεοβιγάστην στρατηγοὺς προβαλόμενος, καὶ τὰς Βρεττανίας ἐάσας, περαιοῦται ἅμα τῶν αὐτοῦ ἐπὶ Βονωνίαν ->He appointed Justinus and Neovigastes as generals, and leaving Britain, crossed with his forces to Bononia.(Olympiodorus/Photius)

Started by claudius

ἑστ̆σι; -> ἑστᾶσι

Started by spiros

μὴ ἐν πολλοῖς ὀλίγα λέγε, ἀλλ΄ ἐν ὀλίγοις πολλά -> don't say little in many words, but much in a few words (Stobaeus quoting Pythagoras)

Started by crystal

ὁμοιωθείς -> one who has become like, one who has become equal

Started by spiros

κάλλιστον ἐφόδιον τῷ γήρᾳ ἡ παιδεία (Aristotle, quoted by Diogenes Laertius 5.21) -> the finest provision for old age is education

Started by demeter

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

Started by jmorsay

καίπερ κακοῖς δουλεύοντες ἐχόρευον ὅμως ταῖς γε θεοῖς ὡς σωθείησαν

Started by Jorsay

ἆρά γε λόγον ἔχει δυοῖν ἀρχαῖν, ὑλικῆς τε καὶ δραστικῆς -> does it in fact have the function of two principles, the material and the active?

Started by sappho

Ἐπηγγείλατο εἰς ἐπανόρθωσιν τῆς πόλεως διὰ τὸ εἶναι ευσεβεστάτη καὶ κηδεμονικὴ. -> She pledged herself to the reconstruction of the city because of her being most pious and dutiful.

Started by Euterpe

ἐν πίθῳ τὴν κεραμείαν μανθάνειν -> in breaking many pots, the potter learns his craft | of those who undertake the most difficult tasks without learning the elements of the art | don't run before you can walk

Started by Rover

ἐπιλοίμια -> incantations against plague, incantations to drive away pestilence (Julius Pollux 4.53)

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Εἰδέναι

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δῶρα θεοὺς πείθει -> gifts persuade the gods (Hesiod, fr. 272 Rz.)

Started by Kurama

εἰρήνην καλεῖς δὴ τὸ πολέμου τέλος;

Started by jmorsay

ποίαν παρεξελθοῦσα δαιμόνων δίκην; (Sophocles, "Antigone" 921) -> What law of the gods have I transgressed?

Started by stuludwig