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Έγ', ὦ ταλαίπωρ', αὐτὸς ὧν χρείᾳ πάρει. Τὰ πολλὰ γάρ τοι ῥήματ' ἢ τέρψαντά τι, ἢ δυσχεράναντ', ἢ κατοικτίσαντά πως, παρέσχε φωνὴν τοῖς ἀφωνήτοις τινά –> Wretched brother, tell him what you need. A multitude of words can be pleasurable, burdensome, or they can arouse pity somehow — they give a kind of voice to the voiceless.

Sophocles, Oedipus at Colonus, 1280-4

English > Greek (Woodhouse)

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subs.

P. φιλονεικία, ἡ.

Blame: P. and V. μέμψις, ἡ, ψόγος, ὁ.

adj.

Censorious: P. and V. φιλαίτιος, φιλόψογος (Plat.).

Sophistical: P. σοφιστικός, ἐριστικός.