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Headword:
Κάκη
Adler number: kappa,146
Translated headword: badness, cowardice
Vetting Status: low
Translation: Wickedness.
Plato [uses this word] this way.[1]
Aelian [writes]: "whoever left his station, the lawgiver condemned him to death, for betraying by cowardice the post in which he was stationed."[2]
Aelian in the
Varied History [writes]: "no house slave is remembered who yielded to cowardice and betrayed his master."[3]
And again: "with necessity calling, not to yield to cowardice."[4]
Κάκη: κακία. οὕτως Πλάτων. Αἰλιανός: ὅστις τάξιν ἔλειπε, θανατοῖ ἄρα ὁ νομοθέτης αὐτόν, κάκῃ τὴν στάσιν, ἣν ἐτάχθη, προδόντα. Αἰλιανὸς Ποικίλῃ ἱστορίᾳ: οὐδεὶς οἰκέτης μνημονεύεται κάκῃ εἴξας προδοῦναι τὸν δεσπότην. καὶ αὖθις: ἀνάγκης καλούσης μὴ εἴκειν κάκῃ.
Notes:
[1] Besides
Photius s.v., cf.
Timaeus,
Lexicon Platonicum; probably generated by
Plato,
Republic 468A.
[2]
Aelian fr. 155 Domingo-Forasté (152 Hercher). Without a context, it is unclear which lawgiver is meant.
[3]
Aelian fr.8 Domingo-Forasté (8 Hercher).
[4]
Aelian fr. 264 Domingo-Forasté (266 Hercher); already at
epsilon 3442.
Translated by: Jennifer Benedict on 7 March 2008@19:42:51.
Vetted by:Catharine Roth (tweaked translation, augmented notes, set status) on 7 March 2008@22:29:50.
David Whitehead (augmented notes and keywords; cosmetics) on 9 March 2008@05:15:32.
Catharine Roth (expanded notes) on 25 March 2011@23:22:38.
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