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*)epista/ths
Adler number: epsilon,2615
Translated headword: chairman, epistates
Vetting Status: high
Translation: "For [the] opportune time, which for men is the greatest chairman of every deed ..." For the opportune time is the timely and most/very useful [thing] for each activity: where even serious [efforts] occurring at the wrong time are not accepted, as a physician conversing with one who suffers about the nature of his illness; as if one were to converse with drunken men about temperance.
Greek Original:*)epista/ths: kairo\s ga/r, o(/sper a)ndra/si me/gistos e)/rgou panto\s e)/st' e)pista/ths. e)f' e(ka/stou ga\r pra/gmatos to\ kai/rion kai\ xrhsimw/taton o( kairo/s e)stin: o(/pou kai\ ta\ spoudai=a para\ kairo\n gino/mena ou)k a)pode/xontai, w(s i)atro\n tw=| ka/mnonti peri\ fu/sews tou= nosh/matos dialego/menon: w(s ei)/ tis toi=s mequ/ousi peri\ swfrosu/nhs diale/goito.
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Keywords: ethics; food; imagery; medicine; tragedy
Translated by: Catharine Roth on 3 December 2007@00:47:54.
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