moral
πολλάκις δοκεῖ τὸ φυλάξαι τἀγαθὰ τοῦ κτήσασθαι χαλεπώτερον εἶναι → it often proves harder to keep than to win prosperity | it is often harder for men to keep the good they have, than it was to obtain it
English > Greek (Woodhouse)
adjective
ethical: P. ἠθικός (Aristotle).
moral principles: P. τῶν πραξέων αἱ ἁρχαί (Dem. 21).
just, right: P. and V. ὀρθός, δίκαιος, ὅσιος, εὐσεβής; see just.
proper, becoming: P. and V. εὐπρεπής, προσήκων, πρέπων.
on moral grounds: P. κατὰ δίκην (Thuc. 7, 57).
the moral law: use P. and V. θεῖος νόμος, ὁ.
substantive
lesson taught: P. διδασκαλία, ἡ.
I have enlarged on the position of our city to point this moral that…: P. ἐμήκυνα τὰ περὶ τῆς πόλεως διδασκαλίαν ποιουμένος… (with acc. and infin.) (Thuc. 2, 42).
example: P. and V. παράδειγμα, τό.
the cruel violence to his eyes was the work of heaven and a moral to Greece: V. αἱ θ' αἱματωποὶ δεργμάτων διαφθοραὶ θεῶν σόφισμα κἀπίδειξις Ἑλλάδι (Euripides, Phoenissae 870).
