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Headword:
Kakê
Adler number: kappa,146
Translated headword: badness
Vetting Status: high
Translation: [Meaning] evil.
Plato [sc. 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 elsewhere: "with necessity calling, not to yield to cowardice."[4]
Kakê: kakia. houtôs Platôn. Ailianos: hostis taxin eleipe, thanatoi ara ho nomothetês auton, kakêi tên stasin, hên etachthê, prodonta. Ailianos Poikilêi historiai: oudeis oiketês mnêmoneuetai kakêi eixas prodounai ton despotên. kai authis: anankês kalousês mê eikein kakêi.
Notes:
[1] Besides
Photius,
Lexicon kappa80 Theodoridis, cf.
Timaeus,
Platonic Lexicon. See
Plato,
Phaedrus 247B,
Menexenus 246B, and
Republic 5.468A.
[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.
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