κρέσσων γὰρ οἰκτιρμοῦ φθόνος → it is better to be envied than pitied | to be envied is a nobler fate than to be pitied (Pindar, Pythian 1.85)
[Seite 419] ἡ, = οὐροδόχη, Xen. bei Phot., der es ἀμίς erkl.