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Headword: Eudaimôn
Adler number: epsilon,3406
Translated headword: happy
Vetting Status: high
Translation:
[Meaning] one who is rich,[1] one who is virtuous.
"[It is] completely necessary that good people should be better off in Hades, and that bad people should be worse off. I think that even for those still spending time here a happy gratification will follow upon the just people and that an unhappy vengeance will follow upon the bad people."[2]
Greek Original:
Eudaimôn: ho plousios, ho enaretos. pasa anankê tois men agathois en haidou esesthai ameinon, tois de kakois kakion. oimai de hoti kai enthade eti diatribousi, tois men dikaiois akolouthêsein eudaimona charin, tois de adikois kakodaimona tisin.
Notes:
cf. epsilon 3401, epsilon 3405, epsilon 3408.
[1] Likewise, according to Adler, in the Ambrosian Lexicon (2257).
[2] Tentatively attributed by Adler to Damascius; now Damascius, Life of Isidore fr. 384 Zintzen.
Keywords: definition; economics; ethics; philosophy; religion
Translated by: Marcelo Boeri on 31 October 2000@13:24:59.
Vetted by:
William Hutton (Modified translation.) on 31 October 2000@23:20:43.
David Whitehead (added note; cosmetics) on 17 June 2002@08:26:12.
David Whitehead (augmented notes and keywords; cosmetics) on 30 November 2006@07:59:20.
David Whitehead (updated n.2) on 20 March 2011@07:00:24.
David Whitehead (tweaking) on 5 November 2012@08:58:31.
David Whitehead (small adjustments to notes) on 22 February 2016@05:32:54.
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