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δυοῖν κακοῖν προκειμένοιν τὸ μὴ χεῖρον βέλτιστον → the lesser of two evils, the less bad thing of a pair of bad things, better the devil you know, better the devil you know than the devil you don't, better the devil you know than the devil you don't know, better the devil you know than the one you don't, better the devil you know than the one you don't know, the devil that you know is better than the devil that you don't know, the devil we know is better than the devil we don't, the devil we know is better than the devil we don't know, the devil you know is better than the devil you don't
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English (LSJ)
α, ον, Aeschin.3.160; also ος, ον Luc.Nigr.25, Plu.Cat.Mi.21:—
A to be bought, for sale, Epich. 71; πῶς ὁ σῖτος ὤ.; how's corn selling? Ar.Ach.758, cf. Eq. 480: c. gen. pretii, αἵματος ἡ ἀρετὴ ὠ. Aeschin. l.c.; τῆς οὐσίας γάρ εἰσιν . . ὤνιοι (sc. ἰχθύες) Alex.76.7; θανάτου γάρ ἐστιν ὤνιον Men.366, cf. Phld.Mus.p.67K.; οὐ γὰρ ἀργίας ὤνιον ἡ ὑγίεια Plu.2.135b; ἐς ὤνιον ἐλθεῖν come to market, Thgn.127 (dub. cj., ὥριον codd.); ὤνιον εἶναι to be on sale, Pl.Lg.848a; οὗ ὁ οἶνος ὤνιος Is.6.20; οὗ τὰ βιβλἴ ὤνια Eup.304; εἰς Ῥώμην ὤνιος ἤχθη Plu.Crass. 8; οἰκέτας ὠνίους ἐξάγειν Id.2.680e; Ἀττικὰς ἰσχάδας ὠνίους κομισθείσας commercially imported Attic figs, ib.173c; ἴστε ὀρόβους ὄντας ὠνίους, prov. of great distress, D.22.15; τὰ ὤ. goods for sale, marketwares, X.Cyr.1.2.3, Lys.22.16, D.8.67; τὴν ἀγορὰν τῶν ὠνίων SIG 799.22 (Cyzicus, i A. D.), cf. Wilcken Chr.41 iii 31 (iii A. D.). 2 of a venal magistrate, τοῦ στρατηγοῦ ὠνίου ὄντος Din.1.20; διὰ τὴν ἀπορίαν ὤνιοι Arist.Pol.1270b10; so ἀρχαιρεσίαι ὤ. Plu.Cat.Mi. 21.
