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βίος ἀνεόρταστος μακρὴ ὁδὸς ἀπανδόκευτος → a life without feasting is a long journey without an inn | a life without festivals is a long journey without inns | a life without festivals is a long road without inns | a life without festivity is a long road without an inn | a life without festivity is like a long road without an inn | a life without holidays is like a long road without taverns | a life without parties is a long journey without inns | a life without public holidays is a long road without hotels
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Revision as of 19:36, 8 February 2013
English (LSJ)
A to be best or bravest, αἰὲν ἀριστεύειν καὶ ὑπείροχον ἔμμεναι ἄλλων Il.6.208; ὃς δέ κ' ἀριστεύῃσι μάχῃ ἔνι 11.409; ἐν ἀέθλοισιν ἀ. Pi.N.11.14; gain the prize for valour (v. ἀριστεῖα, τά), gain the highest distinction, Hdt.3.55, 9.105, Pl.R.468b, Isoc.9.16. 2 c. gen., ἀριστεύεσκε μάχεσθαι Τρώων he was the best of the Trojans... Il.6.460, cf. Hdt.5.112, 7.106, al.; οὕνεκα βουλῇ ἀριστεύεσκεν ἁπάντων Il.11.627, cf. Pi.N.10.10. 3 c. inf., ἀριστεύεσκε μάχεσθαι he was best at fighting, Il.16.292,551, etc.; ἀριστεύεσκε μάχεσθαι Τρώων, v. supr. 4 c.acc.rei, ἀ. τι to be best in a thing, στάδιον Pi.O.10(11).64, cf. 13.43; ἰάλεμον Theoc.15.98. 5 c. acc. cogn., win as ἀριστεῖα, τὰ πρῶτα καλλιστεῖ' ἀριστεύσας S.Aj. 435, cf. 1300; πάντα ἀ. Id.Tr.488, Pl.R.540a; μεμιγμένην ἀριστείαν ἀ. Plu.Pel.34. II of things, to be best, ἀριστεύοισαν εὐκάρπου χθονός best of all lands on fruitful earth, Pi.N.1.14; τὸ κηδεῦσαι καθ' ἑαυτὸν ἀριστεύει μακρῷ A.Pr.890 (lyr.); of an opinion, prevail, Hdt.7.144.
