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τὸ μὲν εὖ πράσσειν ἀκόρεστον ἔφυ πᾶσι βροτοῖσιν → all mortals have by nature an insatiable appetite for success, our mortal state with bliss is never satiate, success is something for which humanity is insatiatable

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English > Greek (Woodhouse)

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v. intrans.

P. and V. ἐκτρέπεσθειι, P. ἐκβαίνειν, μεταβαίνειν, πλανᾶσθαι.

I wish to return to the point from which I digressed to these subjects: P. ἐπανελθεῖν ὁπόθεν εἰς ταῦτα ἐξέβην βούλομαι (Dem. 298).