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Headword: *ka/rta
Adler number: kappa,425
Translated headword: certainly
Vetting Status: high
Translation:
From the [writings] of Sophocles. Ajax says to his own child: "for not perceiving [is] certainly a painless evil, until you learn to rejoice and to grieve."[1]
Greek Original:
*ka/rta: e)k tw=n *sofokle/ous. *ai)/as fhsi\ pro\s to\ i)/dion te/knon: to\ mh\ fronei=n ga\r ka/rt' a)nw/dunon kako/n, e(/ws to\ xai/rein kai\ to\ lupei=sqai ma/qois.
Notes:
cf. generally kappa 423, kappa 424.
[1] Sophocles, Ajax 554b-5 (web address 1). The first part of this quotation (to\ mh\ fronei=n...kako/n, line 554b) is also present in the mss of Sophocles, but is bracketed by most modern editors as an intrusive gloss derived from another play; cf. zeta 61, epsilon 1484.
Associated internet address:
Web address 1
Keywords: children; daily life; ethics; philosophy; poetry; proverbs; tragedy
Translated by: William Hutton on 19 June 2007@05:52:42.
Vetted by:
David Whitehead (more keywords; cosmetics) on 19 June 2007@06:09:11.
David Whitehead (more x-refs; another keyword; tweaking) on 28 January 2013@07:48:07.

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