Tuesday, May 13, 2025
Unmanliness
Euripides, Phoenician Women 509-510
(tr. Edward P. Coleridge):
Cf. Proverbs 16:8 (KJV):
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For it is cowardly to lose the greater and to win the less.Donald J. Mastronarde ad loc.:
ἀνανδρία γάρ, τὸ πλέον ὅστις ἀπολέσας
τοὔλασσον ἔλαβε.
Better is a little with righteousness than great revenues without right.See Theodore Hill, "Arguments Employed in Favour of Unjust Action in Euripides, Thucydides, and Plato," Mnemosyne 74.6 (2021) 955-977 (at 963).
