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Οὔτοι συνέχθειν, ἀλλὰ συμφιλεῖν ἔφυν → I was not born to hate, but to love.

Sophocles, Antigone, 523

English > Greek (Woodhouse)

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adj.

inhuman: P. and V. ἄγριος, θηριώδης, P. μισάνθρωπος; see cruel.

horrible: P. and V. ἀνόσιος, μιαρός, ἄνομος; see horrible, monstrous.

superhuman: V. οὐ κατʼ ἄνθρωπον, P. and V. μείζων ἢ κατʼ ἄνθρωπον (Isoc.).

unreasonable: P. ἄλογος.

an unnatural mother: V. μήτηρ ἀμήτωρ (Soph., El. 1154).