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Headword:
Axion
Adler number: alpha,2815
Translated headword: proper, fine, worthy
Vetting Status: high
Translation: Is applied to what is just. Thus
Demosthenes [uses the word].[1]
Also [sc. attested is the phrase]
a)/cion cu/lon ["fine timber"], [meaning timber] well and beautifully worked, good, beautiful.
Aristophanes [writes]: "if you're caught out, at least it will be from fine timber [that you will hang]".[2] From the proverb: "to hang from fine timber." He wants to say, then, that it is better to employ noble and well-scrutinized generals than inferior ones. For if it is necessary to suffer, better to suffer at the hands of a good man than an inferior one.
But
axion in Attic [writers] [means something] cheap. "[Do you know that] stem of a silphium, the
axios [part]?" That is the cheap [part].[3]
Greek Original:Axion: epi tou dikaiou tetaktai. houtôs Dêmosthenês. kai Axion xulon, eu kai kalôs eirgasmenon, euthes, kalon. Aristophanês: kan tis sphalêt', ex axiou goun tou xulou. para tên paroimian: apo kalou xulou kan apanxasthai. thelei oun legein, beltion esti chrêsthai tois gennaiois stratêgois kai dedokimasmenois ê tois phaulois: kan gar deêi pathein, kreitton ap' agathou ê phaulou paschein. Axion de para Attikois to euônon. kaulon silphiou ton axion. toutesti ton euônon.
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Keywords: botany; comedy; daily life; definition; economics; ethics; food; military affairs; proverbs; rhetoric
Translated by: Jennifer Benedict on 30 November 2000@17:06:07.
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