Τὸ γὰρ τὴν φροντίδα ἔξω τῶν κακῶν οἰκεῖν γλυκύ

for it is sweet for our thought to live outside of evils

Translated by Catharine Roth17 Jan 2014Vetting: high1 revision

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Translation

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Greek original · Adler’s text

Τὸ γὰρ τὴν φροντίδα ἔξω τῶν κακῶν οἰκεῖν γλυκύ.

Betacode
*to\ ga\r th\n fronti/da e)/cw tw=n kakw=n oi)kei=n gluku/. 

Notes

  1. The unglossed headword phrase comes from Sophocles, Oedipus Tyrannus 1389-1390 (which has fronti/d' for the meter).

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Revision history1 revision · last 17 Jan 2014
  1. more keywords; tweaking — David Whitehead
  2. Translated — Catharine Roth

Cite this entry

“for it is sweet for our thought to live outside of evils.” Suda On Line. Tr. Catharine Roth. 17 January 2014. <https://www.cs.uky.edu/~raphael/sol/sol-entries/tau/726>. Read at ReadSuda: <https://readsuda.org/tau/726>.

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

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