ἡμίχρηστος
From LSJ
καλῶς δρῶν ἐξαμαρτεῖν μᾶλλον ἢ νικᾶν κακῶς → I would prefer to fail with honor than to win by evil | I prefer to fail by acting rightly rather than win by acting wrongly | Better fail by doing right, than win by doing wrong (Sophocles, Philoctetes 95)
English (LSJ)
ον, A half-good, Arist.Pol.1315b9.
German (Pape)
[Seite 1171] halb brauchbar, halb gut, Arist. Pol. 5, 11.
Greek (Liddell-Scott)
ἡμίχρηστος: -ον, κατὰ τὸ ἥμισυ χρηστός, Ἀριστ. Πολ. 5. 11. 34.
Greek Monolingual
ἡμίχρηστος, -ον (Α)
αυτός που είναι κατά το ήμισυ, εν μέρει χρηστός, εν μέρει αγαθός.
Russian (Dvoretsky)
ἡμίχρηστος: наполовину, т. е. недостаточно хороший (ἦθος Arst.).
