καινουργέω
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)
A make new, Alciphr.3.3; re-create, τινα Zos.Alch. p.108 B. 2 begin something new, τι Hp.VM21; τί καινουργεῖς; what new plan art thou meditating? E.IA2 (anap.); κ. λόγον speak new, strange words, ib.838; coin, ὄνομα Dam.Pr.439: abs., ἐπὶ τὸ κ. φέρου Antiph.29: usu. in bad sense, make innovations, περί τι X.HG6.2.16, cf. D.H.11.21:—Pass., τὰ καινουργούμενα all attempts at alteration, Arist.Mu.398a35.
German (Pape)
[Seite 1295] neu machen; σαγήνην Alciphr. 3, 3; neuern, Neuerungen anfangen, bes. im Staate, tadelnd, Eur. I. A. 2. 838; περὶ τοὺς μισθοφόρους Xen. Hell. 6, 2, 16, wie Luc. Prom. 6; εὐχρηστίας
