ἅλων
From LSJ
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)
ωνος, ἡ,
A = ἅλως (usu. in sense 1), rare in nom., Thphr.Sign. 31 (pl., in sense 11.1), LXX Ho.9.2, BGU651.5 (ii A.D.); more freq. in oblique cases, BCH39.55 (Arcad., iv B.C., in sense of plantation (?)), PLille13.3, Arist.Vent.973a14, LXX Ge.50.10, etc.
German (Pape)
[Seite 113] ωνος, ἡ, die Tenne, Aristot. u. Sp., bes. N. T. in cass. obliquis.
