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Headword: 
*ke/rdos 
ai)sxu/nhs 
a)/meinon 
Adler number: kappa,1389
Translated headword: advantage is better than dishonour
Vetting Status: high
Translation: "If he does not gain his advantage fairly, but works the unholy, or possesses the untouchable. Where such things occur, what man out of the foolish ones will think any more that he can ward off the arrows from his soul?"[1] That is, who could drive away punishment from himself when he does such things?[2]
 Greek Original:*ke/rdos ai)sxu/nhs a)/meinon. ei) mh\ to\ ke/rdos kerdanei= dikai/ws kai\ tw=n a)se/ptwn e)/rcetai kai\ tw=n a)qi/ktwn e(/cetai: matai/wn de\ ti/s e)/ti pot' e)n toi=sd' a)nh\r qumw=| be/lh e)/rcetai yuxa=s a)mu/nein; toute/sti ti/s a)\n a)pela/seien au)tou= th\n timwri/an toiau=ta pra/ttontos; 
Notes: 
The unglossed headword phrase is the first half of a line (for the second half see under 
mu 1360) of Attic comedy -- 
Callias [
kappa 213] fr. 1 Kock and Kassel-Austin, from the 
Atalante: "advantage is better than dishonour; drag the adulterer to the corner". Fragment taken up by collectors of proverbs (
Diogenianus 5.42, 
Zenobius 4.67, 
Macarius Chrysocephalus 5.13, Michael 
Apostolius 9.68). The proverb is vaguely connected to the passage from 
Sophocles discussed next.
[1] An approximation of 
Sophocles, 
Oedipus Tyrannus 889-894 (web address 1): "if he does not gain his advantage fairly, but works the unholy [deeds], or touches the untouchable [sanctities] in folly. Where such things occur, what man will think any more that he can ward off the arrows [of the gods] from his soul?" The original's 
mata/|zwn, "doing vain, foolish things", is misconstrued as 
matai/wn "of vain, foolish ones", and as the start of a new sentence.
[2] From the 
scholia thereto (892).
Web address 1
Keywords: comedy; daily life; definition; ethics; imagery; proverbs; tragedy
Translated by: Nick Nicholas on 7 November 2008@00:56:34.
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