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Headword: Echthranteos
Adler number: epsilon,4016
Translated headword: hateful, to be hated
Vetting Status: high
Translation:
Sophocles [writes]: "the enemy is hateful to us in so far as he will be a friend hereafter; and to a friend I would wish to render so much service as to one who will not always stay [true]." One must, he is saying, devote oneself to one's enemies, as future friends; and to one's friends, as [future] enemies. So he is saying [one should] deal with matters moderately.
Greek Original:
Echthranteos: Sophoklês: ho t' echthros hêmin es tosond' echthranteos, hôs kai philêsôn authis: es te ton philon toiauth' hupourgôn ôphelein boulêsomai, hôs aien ou menounta. dei, phêsi, prosechein tois echthrois, hôs authis philois esomenois: kai tois philois, hôs echthrois. summetrôs oun phêsi chrêsthai tois pragmasin.
Notes:
Sophocles, Ajax 679-682, with comment from the scholia there; cf. alpha 655.
NB: in both of these entries, and again implicitly in epsilon 4017, Sophocles is credited with having written e)xqrante/os, but the mainstream manuscript tradition of Sophocles has e)xqarte/os.
Keywords: dialects, grammar, and etymology; ethics; tragedy
Translated by: Ryan Stone on 11 February 2008@14:06:46.
Vetted by:
David Whitehead (rearranged notes; modified keywords; tweaks and cosmetics) on 12 February 2008@06:25:07.
David Whitehead on 21 November 2012@05:16:39.
Catharine Roth (cosmetics) on 28 March 2018@18:51:23.
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