Page tools
Page tools
User page tools
Categories
- This page was last edited on 13 August 2017, at 08:37.
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)
mĕlancrānis: is, f., = μελάγκρανις> (black-head),
I a kind of rush with black seeds, Plin. 21, 18, 69, § 112.