κάρη

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καλῶς δρῶν ἐξαμαρτεῖν μᾶλλοννικᾶν 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)

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German (Pape)

[Seite 1327] τό, ion. u. ep. = κάρα, w. m. s.

French (Bailly abrégé)

ion. et épq. c. κάρα.

English (Autenrieth)

(Att. κάρᾶ), gen. κάρητος, καρήατος, κρᾶτός, κράατος, dat. similarly, acc. κάρη, κρᾶτα, pl. καρήατα, κρᾶτα, κράατα, dat. κρᾶσί, κράτεσφι: head, of men or animals; also of a poppy, mountain-peaks, the head of a harbor, Il. 8.306, Il. 20.5, Od. 9.140. For κρῆθεν, see κατάκρηθεν.