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Headword:
*pau=la
Adler number: pi,806
Translated headword: pause, rest
Vetting Status: high
Translation: [Meaning] cessation.[1]
As the saying goes,[2] an end of an evil [is] a greater evil.[3] Hence in choosing evils one should choose the smallest.
Greek Original:*pau=la: a)na/pausis. kata\ to\ dh\ lego/menon, pau=sis kakou= mei=zon kako/n. dio/per e)n kakw=n ai(re/sei tou)la/xiston dei= e(le/sqai.
Notes:
See also
pi 807.
[1] Same or similar glossing in other lexica; references at
Photius pi497 Theodoridis.
[2] What follows does not, despite this phrase, feature in the paroemiographers.
[3] Again under
phi 810. The noun has now changed to
pau=sis. Jonathan Toup (1713-1785) thought it should be emended to the headword
pau=la, but
pau=sis appears in the version at
phi 810 also.
Translated by: David Whitehead on 19 November 2010@04:33:17.
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