ἀρετή: Difference between revisions

|auten=([[root]] ἀρ, cf. [[ἀρείων]], [[ἄριστος]]): subst. ([[answering]] to the adj. [[ἀγαθός]]), [[excellence]] (of [[whatever]] [[sort]]), [[merit]]; ἐκ πατρὸς πολὺ χείρονος υἱὸς [[ἀμείνων]] | παντοίᾶς ἀρετάς, ἠμὲν πόδας ἠδὲ μάχεσθαι, [[all]] kinds of ‘[[prowess]],’ Il. 15.642, cf. Il. 22.268; [[intellectual]], ἐμῇ ἀρετῇ (βουλῇ τε νόῳ τε) | ἐκφύγομεν, Od. 12.212; of a [[woman]], ἐμὴν ἀρετὴν ([[εἶδος]] τε [[δέμας]] τε) | ὤλεσαν άθάνατοι, my ‘attractions’ (said by [[Penelope]]), Od. 18.251 ; τῆς ἀρετῆς (Od. 2.206) includes [[more]]. The signif. [[well]]-[[being]], [[prosperity]] (Il. 20.242, Od. 13.45) answers to εὖ [[rather]] [[than]] to [[ἀγαθός]].