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Headword:
*glw/ssh|
su\
deino/s
Adler number: gamma,300
Translated headword: you are terrific with your tongue
Vetting Status: high
Translation: ["You are terrific with your tongue;] but I know no just man who speaks well from every [angle]"; that is, who wants to appear to be saying just things from every [angle].
Greek Original:*glw/ssh| su\ deino/s: a)/ndra d' ou)de/n' oi)=d' e)gw\ di/kaion, o(/stis e)c a(/pantos eu)= le/gei: oi(=on boulo/menos e)k panto\s dokei=n di/kaia le/gein.
Note:
Sophocles,
Oedipus at Colonus 806-7 (web address 1 below), with (somewhat cynical) comment from the
scholia there.
Associated internet address:
Web address 1
Keywords: definition; ethics; rhetoric; tragedy
Translated by: Jennifer Benedict on 30 July 2002@12:21:51.
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