Παῦλα

pause, rest

Translated by David Whitehead19 Nov 2010Vetting: high4 revisions

3 notes · 24 words

[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 · Adler’s text

Παῦλα· ἀνάπαυσις. κατὰ τὸ δὴ λεγόμενον, παῦσις κακοῦ μεῖζον κακόν. διόπερ ἐν κακῶν αἱρέσει τοὐλάχιστον δεῖ ἑλέσθαι.

Betacode

*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.

See also pi 807.
1Same or similar glossing in other lexica; references at Photius pi497 Theodoridis. ↩
2What follows does not, despite this phrase, feature in the paroemiographers. ↩
3Again 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. ↩

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