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Εἴκειν δ' οὐκ ἐπίσταται κακοῖς → You don't know how to yield to your misfortunes

Sophocles, Antigone, 472

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substantive

P. μῖλαξ, σμῖλαξ, ἡ (Plato) τάξος.

The word is also found in Euripides, Bacchae 703, and Aristophanes, Nubes 1007, but apparently with a different meaning.