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Βίων δύο ἔλεγε διδασκαλίας εἶναι θανάτου, τόν τε πρὸ τοῦ γενέσθαι χρόνον καὶ τὸν ὕπνον → Bion used to say that we have two teachers for death: the time before we were born and sleep | Bion said that there are two rehearsals for death: the time before being born and sleep
English > Greek (Woodhouse)
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half the land: P. and V. ἡ ἡμίσεια τῆς γῆς or τὸ ἥμισυ τῆς γῆς.
in half, in two: P. and V. δίχα, V. διχῆ.
you said you would cut yourself in half: Ar. ἔφησθα σαυτῆς κἂν παρατεμεῖν θἤμισυ (Lys. 132).
the height when completed was about half what he intended: P. τὸ ὕψος ἥμισυ μάλιστα ἐτελέσθη οὗ διενοεῖτο (Thuc. 1, 93).
half an estate: P. ἡμικλήριον, τό.
be honest by halves: P. ἐφ' ἡμισείᾳ χρηστὸς εἶναι (Dem. 430).
he bade them raise a shield when half way across: P. εἶπεν ἆραι ασπίδα κατὰ μέσον τον πλοῦν (Xenophon, hell. II. 1, 27).
