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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 > Greek (Woodhouse)
substantive
fall on one's knees, v.: P. and V. προσκυνεῖν.
bend the knee: . V. κάμπτειν γόνυ, or use κάμπτειν alone.
they bowed their knees to earth in weariness: V. ἐς δὲ γῆν γόνυ καμάτῳ καθεῖσαν (Eur., Iphigenia in Tauris 332).
bring (an enemy) to his knees: P. and V. παρίστασθαι (acc.).
fall at a person's knees: P. and V. προσκυνεῖν (τινά), P. πίπτειν πρὸς τὰ γόνατά (τινός), V. γόνασι προσπίπτειν (τινός), προσπίπτειν γόνυ (τινός), ἀμφὶ γόνυ πίπτειν (τινός), προσπίτνειν γόνυ (τινός), Ar. and V. προσπίπτειν (τινά or τινί) (also Xen. but rare P.).
