Φιλεῖ γὰρ πρὸς τὰ χρηστὰ πᾶς ὁρᾶν

for everyone likes to look towards what is good

Translated by Catharine Roth31 Dec 2010Vetting: high2 revisions

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Translation

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Greek original · Adler’s text

Φιλεῖ γὰρ πρὸς τὰ χρηστὰ πᾶς ὁρᾶν.

Betacode
*filei= ga\r pro\s ta\ xrhsta\ pa=s o(ra=n. 

Notes

  1. Sophocles, Electra 972 (web address 1). The scholion on this verse says simply gnw/mh ("a maxim").

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Revision history2 revisions · last 1 Jan 2011
  1. expanded note, added keyword — Catharine Roth
  2. cosmetics — David Whitehead
  3. Translated — Catharine Roth

Cite this entry

“for everyone likes to look towards what is good.” Suda On Line. Tr. Catharine Roth. 31 December 2010. <https://www.cs.uky.edu/~raphael/sol/sol-entries/phi/318>. Read at ReadSuda: <https://readsuda.org/phi/318>.

Translation by Catharine Roth for Suda On Line, revised by Catharine Roth, David Whitehead, licensed CC BY-NC-SA 1.0. Shown unchanged, under the same licence, non-commercially. Licence & terms

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