ἡμίκρανον
From LSJ
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)
τό, A = ἡμίκραιρα 1, Alex. Trall.1.12.
German (Pape)
[Seite 1168] τό, nach Phryn. 328 besser als ἡμικεφάλαιον, Sp., der halbe Kopf.
Greek (Liddell-Scott)
ἡμίκρανον: τό, = ἡμικεφάλαιον, Φρύνιχ. σ. 328, Ἀλέξ. Τραλλ. 1. 2, Ἡσύχ.
Greek Monolingual
ἡμίκρανον, τὸ (AM)
βλ. ημίκραιρα.
[ΕΤΥΜΟΛ. < ημι- + -κρανον (< κρανον < κρανίον), πρβλ. δί-κρανον, κιονό-κρανον].
