moral

English > Greek (Woodhouse)

adjective

ethical: P. ἠθικός (Aristotle).

moral principles: P. τῶν πραξέων αἱ ἁρχαί (Dem. 21).

just, right: P. and V. ὀρθός, δίκαιος, ὅσιος, εὐσεβής; see just.

proper, becoming: P. and V. εὐπρεπής, προσήκων, πρέπων.

on moral grounds: P. κατὰ δίκην (Thuc. 7, 57).

the moral law: use P. and V. θεῖος νόμος, ὁ.

substantive

lesson taught: P. διδασκαλία, ἡ.

I have enlarged on the position of our city to point this moral that…: P. ἐμήκυνα τὰ περὶ τῆς πόλεως διδασκαλίαν ποιουμένος… (with acc. and infin.) (Thuc. 2, 42).

example: P. and V. παράδειγμα, τό.

the cruel violence to his eyes was the work of heaven and a moral to Greece: V. αἱ θ' αἱματωποὶ δεργμάτων διαφθοραὶ θεῶν σόφισμα κἀπίδειξις Ἑλλάδι (Euripides, Phoenissae 870).

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