Charmides
κρεῖττον τὸ μὴ ζῆν ἐστιν ἢ ζῆν ἀθλίως → death is better than a life of misery, it is better not to live at all than to live in misery
English > Greek (Woodhouse)
Χαρμίδης, -ου, ὁ.
Latin > English (Lewis & Short)
Charmĭdes: ai or i, m.,
I a comic person in Plaut. Trin.; hence, charmĭdātus, changed into Charmides, id. ib. 4, 2, 135; cf. decharmido.
Latin > French (Gaffiot 2016)
Charmĭdes, āī et ī, m., personnage de comédie : Pl. Trin. 359 ; 744.
Latin > German (Georges)
Charmidēs, Genet. āī u. ī, m. (Χαρμίδης), griech. Eigenname, Plaut. trin. 149; Genet. āī, ibid. 359; Genet. ī, ibid. 744. – Dav. charmidor, ātus sum, āri, zum Charmides werden (im Doppelsinne mit χάρμα [die Freude] auch = sich erfreuen), Ggstz. se decharmidare, Plaut. trin. 977.
Latin > English
Charmides Charmidae N M :: Charmides (comic character in Plautus' play Trinummus); (Son of Joy)
Wikipedia EN
Charmides (/ˈkɑːrmɪdiːz/; Greek: Χαρμίδης), son of Glaucon, was an Athenian statesman who flourished during the 5th century BC. An uncle of Plato, Charmides appears in the Platonic dialogue bearing his name (Charmides), the Protagoras, and the Symposium, as well as in Xenophon's Symposium, Memorabilia, and Hellenica. A wealthy orphan raised by his first cousin, Critias, his property was confiscated for his role in profaning the Eleusinian Mysteries in 415 BC. He is commonly listed as one of the Thirty Tyrants who ruled Athens following its defeat in the Peloponnesian War, but evidence points only to his having been one of the ten men appointed by the Thirty to govern the Piraeus. He was killed in the Battle of Munichia in 403 BC when the democrats returned to Athens.
This Charmides was probably not the same man as the father of the great Athenian sculptor Phidias, also named Charmides.
Russian (Dvoretsky)
Χαρμίδης: ου ὁ Хармид (сын Главкона, дядя Платона по материнской линии, павший в бою против Трасибула в 404 г. до н. э.; его именем назван диалог Платона «о благоразумии» Xen., Plat.).