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Headword:
*ai)sxro/n
Adler number: alphaiota,356
Translated headword: shameful
Vetting Status: high
Translation: Sophocles [writes]: "for it is shameful to ask for a long life for one who will never be free from evils."[1] That is, whoever is always reckoned among the evil.[1]
[There are] 4 types of 'shameful': unjust, cowardly, intemperate, ugly.[2]
Greek Original:*ai)sxro/n: *sofoklh=s: ai)sxro\n ga/r e)sti tou= makrou= xrh/|zein bi/ou kakoi=sin o(/stis mhde\n e)calla/ssetai. toute/stin o(/stis a)ei\ e)n kakoi=s e)ceta/zetai. ai)sxrou= ei)/dh d#: a)/dikon, deilo/n, a)/kosmon, a)/morfon.
Notes:
cf. under
alphaiota 353.
[1]
Sophocles,
Ajax 473-4 (where the third word should be
a)/ndra, not the Suda's
e)sti), with comment from the
scholia there.
[2] Not identified by Adler but identifiable via the TLG as Chrysippos [
chi 568],
Fragmenta Moralia fr. 83; the fourth type there, however, is
a)/fron, "senseless".
Translated by: William Hutton on 17 March 2003@16:05:26.
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