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τοῖς πράγμασιν γὰρ οὐχὶ θυμοῦσθαι χρεών· μέλει γὰρ αὐτοῖς οὐδέν· ἀλλ' οὑντυγχάνων τὰ πράγματ' ὀρθῶς ἂν τιθῇ, πράξει καλῶς → It does no good to rage at circumstance; events will take their course with no regard for us. But he who makes the best of those events he lights upon will not fare ill.

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English > Greek (Woodhouse)

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substantive

P. μῖλαξ, σμῖλαξ, ἡ (Plato) τάξος.

The word is also found in Eur., Bacchae 703, and Aristophanes, Nubes 1007, but apparently with a different meaning.