Enchiridion [Sentence 051]

Enchiridion

Sentence 051

Text and Analysis

10.01.017
ἐὰν
ἐάν
conjunction
-
if
10.01.018
καλὸν
καλός
noun
ASM
beautiful man
10.01.019
ἴδῃς
εἶδον
verb
AAS.2S
you see
10.01.020
conjunction
-
or
10.01.021
καλήν,
καλός
noun
ASF
beautiful woman
10.01.022
εὑρήσεις
εὑρίσκω
verb
FAI.2S
you will find
10.01.023
δύναμιν
δύναμις
adjective
ASF
ability
10.01.024
πρὸς
πρός
preposition
-
regarding
10.01.025
ταῦτα
οὗτος
pronoun
SPN
this
10.01.026
ἐγκράτειαν:
ἐγκράτεια
adjective
ASF
[to be] self-restraint.

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Translations

If you see an attractive person, you will find that self-restraint is the ability you have against your desire.Elizabeth Carter (c.1750)
If you encounter a handsome person, you will find continence the faculty needed;Thomas Wentworth Higginson (1890)
If you see a fair man or a fair woman, you will find that the power to resist is temperance (continence).George Long (1890)
If you see a beautiful boy or a beautiful woman, you will find continence the faculty to exercise there;Percy Ewing Matheson (1916)