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*)/iasis
Adler number: iota,48
Translated headword: healing, cure
Vetting Status: high
Translation: [Healing] and relieving are different. For some diseases are treated with temporary treatments, which is relieving; but others are fully treated, which is healing. So
Sophocles in
Electra [writes]: "whence would you find relief for my sufferings, for which it is not possible to see a cure?" That is, in no manner do our [troubles] have a better outcome.
*)/iasis kai\ a)/rhcis diafe/rei. tw=n ga\r noshma/twn, ta\ me\n qerapeu/etai proskai/rois qerapei/ais, o(/per e)sti\n a)/rhcis: ta\ de\ qerapeu/etai pantelw=s, o(/per e)sti\n i)/asis. fhsi\n ou)=n *sofoklh=s e)n *)hle/ktra|: po/qen d' a)\n eu(/rois tw=n e)mw=n su\ phma/twn a)/rhcin, oi(=s i)/asis ou)k e)/nestin i)dei=n; toute/sti kat' ou)de/na tro/pon proko/ptei ta\ h(me/tera e)pi\ to\ be/ltion.
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Sophocles,
Electra 875-6 (web address 1), with scholion.
Web address 1
Keywords: definition; medicine; tragedy
Translated by: Catharine Roth on 27 March 2006@22:24:33.
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