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τοῖς πράγμασιν γὰρ οὐχὶ θυμοῦσθαι χρεών· μέλει γὰρ αὐτοῖς οὐδέν· ἀλλ' οὑντυγχάνων τὰ πράγματ' ὀρθῶς ἂν τιθῇ, πράξει καλῶς → It does no good to rage at circumstance; events will take their course with no regard for us. But he who makes the best of those events he lights upon will not fare ill.
English > Greek (Woodhouse)
substantive
Ar. λεπίς, ἡ, V. ὄστρακον τό (Aesch., Fragment).
a white eggshell: V. τεῦχος νεοσσῶν λευκόν (Euripides, Helen 258).
Translations
Arabic: قَشْر الْبَيْضِ; Basque: arrautza-azal; Bikol Central: arikurong; Bulgarian: черупка; Catalan: closca d'ou; Chinese Cantonese: 蛋殼／蛋壳; Mandarin: 蛋殼／蛋壳; Min Nan: 卵殼／卵壳; Czech: skořápka; Danish: æggeskal; Dutch: eierschaal; Faroese: eggjakoppur, eggjaskal; Finnish: munankuori; French: coquille d'œuf; Galician: casca de ovo; German: Eierschale; Greek: τσόφλι αβγού, αβγότσουφλο; Ancient Greek: ὄστρακον; Hungarian: tojáshéj; Icelandic: eggjaskurn; Indonesian: kulit telur; Irish: blaosc uibhe; Italian: guscio d'uovo; Japanese: 卵の殻, 卵殻; Khmer: សំបកពង; Korean: 달걀 껍질, 난각(卵殼), 계란 껍질; Latvian: olas čaumala, čaumala; Luxembourgish: Eeërschuel; Maltese: qoxra tal-bajd; Plautdietsch: Eiaschol; Polish: skorupka jajka; Portuguese: casca de ovo; Romanian: coajă de ou; Russian: яичная скорлупа, скорлупа; Scottish Gaelic: plaosg-uighe, slige; Slovak: škrupina; Spanish: cáscara de huevo; Swedish: äggskal; Thai: เปลือกไข่; Vietnamese: vỏ trứng; Welsh: plisgyn ŵy, masgl ŵy
