Ἴσασι

they know

Translated by Catharine Roth17 Mar 2001Vetting: high6 revisions

2 notes · 26 words

Translation

[Meaning] they are acquainted.1
"For men of bad judgment, although they have the good in their hands, do not know it until someone casts it away."2

Greek original · Adler’s text

Ἴσασι· γινώσκουσιν. οἱ γὰρ κακοί, γνώμαισι τἀγαθὸν χεροῖν ἔχοντες, οὐκ ἴσασι πρίν τις ἐκβάλῃ.

Betacode
*)/isasi: ginw/skousin. oi( ga\r kakoi/, gnw/maisi ta)gaqo\n xeroi=n e)/xontes, ou)k i)/sasi pri/n tis e)kba/lh|. 

Notes (2)

  1. 1Already at iota 611. Third person plural of oi)=da: see Smyth sections 794-799 (web address 1); and cf. iota 628, iota 680, iota 681, iota 702. ↩
  2. 2Sophocles, Ajax 964-5 (web address 2). ↩

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