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Headword:
Ἀκροσφαλεῖς
Adler number: alpha,1019
Translated headword: precarious
Vetting Status: high
Translation: Stumbling in the act of walking. That is the Huns.[1]
In
Philoctetes:[1] "...that all things are awful for mortals and uncertain: to fare well or to fare otherwise. It is necessary for one who is outside miseries to expect awful things. And whenever someone is doing well, that is the time he should examine his life most of all, so disaster does not sneak up on him."[2]
Ἀκροσφαλεῖς: ἐν τῷ βαδίζειν σφαλλόμενοι. τουτέστιν οἱ Οὖννοι. Φιλοκτήτῃ: ὡς πάντα δεινὰ κἀπικινδύνως βροτοῖς κεῖται: παθεῖν μὲν εὖ, παθεῖν δὲ θάτερα. χρὴ δ' ἐκτὸς ὄντα πημάτων τὰ δεῖν' ὁρᾶν: χὤταν τίς εὖ ζῇ, τηνικαῦτα τὸν βίον σκοπεῖν μάλιστα, μὴ διαφθαρεὶς λάθῃ.
Notes:
[1] See already
alpha 1018.
[2]
Sophocles,
Philoctetes 502-506 (link to text below); cf.
theta 61. This quotation does not contain the headword of this entry, but has some vague connection to it in sense.
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Keywords: definition; ethics; geography; proverbs; tragedy
Translated by: Jennifer Benedict on 6 March 2000@16:18:52.
Vetted by:William Hutton (Altered translation. Added note and link to Sophocles' text.) on 12 March 2000@22:57:18.
David Whitehead (augmented notes; cosmetics) on 5 June 2002@08:37:35.
David Whitehead (more keywords) on 1 February 2012@07:39:31.
Catharine Roth (upgraded link) on 24 April 2012@21:07:09.
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