ὡρακιάω
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 faint, swoon away, Ar.Ra.481, Pax702, and in later Prose, as Phld.Acad.Ind.p.50M., Lib.Decl.26.33, 31.34, Them.Or. 26.314b.—Moer.p.425P. writes it with the aspir., as Att. for λιποψυχέω. Others wrote it ὠρακιάω as if for ὠχριάω, and this sense is given to the word by Aristaenet.1.10, Procop.Arc.10, Sch.Ar.Pax l.c.
Greek (Liddell-Scott)
ὡρᾱκιάω: μέλλ. -άσω, [ᾱ], λιποψυχῶ, λιποθυμῶ, Ἀριστοφάν. Βάτρ. 481, Εἰρ. 702, καὶ παρὰ μεταγεν. πεζογράφοις, οἷον ἐν Λιβαν. 4. 143, 209, Θεμιστίῳ 214Β· ― ὁ Μοῖρ. 425, γράφει τὴν λέξιν ὀρθῶς διὰ δασείας καὶ λέγει ὅτι εἶναι Ἀττικὴ ἀντὶ τοῦ λιποψυχέω, «ὡρακιᾶν Ἀττικοί, λιποψυχεῖν Ἕλληνες». Ἕτεροι γράφουσιν ὠρακιάω διὰ ψιλῆς, οἱονεὶ ἀντὶ ὠχριάω, ταύτην δὲ τὴν σημασίαν ἀποδίδει εἰς τὴν λέξιν ὁ Ἀρισταίν. 1. 10, Σχόλ. εἰς Ἀριστοφ. Εἰρ. ἔνθ’ ἀνωτ.· πρβλ. Λοβεκ. Παθολ. 381. ― Καθ’ Ἡσύχ.: «ὡρακιᾶν· τὸ ἐν τοῖς βαλανείοις ἐκλύεσθαι ἢ σκοτοῦσθαι, καὶ ὠχριᾶν», καὶ: «ὡρακιᾶν· λιποψυχεῖν. ἐκλύεσθαι καὶ σκοτοῦσθαι μετὰ ὠχριάσεως ἢ καὶ ἱδρῶτος. οἱ δὲ ναυσιᾶν καὶ σκοτοῦσθαι».
