κρέσσων γὰρ οἰκτιρμοῦ φθόνος → it is better to be envied than pitied | to be envied is a nobler fate than to be pitied (Pindar, Pythian 1.85)
[Seite 1449] ἡ, Buhlerei, Sp.; auch Hdn. epim. 93.