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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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Greek Monolingual

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υπερβολική επιθυμία για ικανοποίηση του γενετήσιου ενστίκτου και επιζήτηση αισθησιασμού.
[ΕΤΥΜΟΛ. Μεταφορά στα ελλ. ξεν. όρου (πρβλ. αγγλ. erotism). Η λ. μαρτυρείται από το 1894 στον Α. Γ. Μαυρουκάκη στην εφημερίδα Άστυ].