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Epidaphna

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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)

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Latin > English (Lewis & Short)

Ĕpĭdaphna: ae, f. (nom. Ĕpĭdaph-nes, Plin. 5, 21, 18, § 79), = Ἐπιδάφνη or Ἐπὶ Δάφνης (i. e. near the village of Daphne),
I another name for Antioch on the Orontes, Tac. A. 2, 83.

Latin > French (Gaffiot 2016)

Ĕpĭdaphna et Ĕpĭdaphnēs, æ, f. (ἡ ἐπὶ Δάφνης), village voisin d’Antioche, en Syrie [situé près d’un lieu nommé Daphné] : Tac. Ann. 2, 83 ; Plin. 5, 79.