Enchiridion [Sentence 069]

Text and Analysis

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κρεῖττον

κρείσσων

verb@adj

SSNC

better

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δὲ

δέ

particle

but

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τὸν

ὁ

article

ASM

the

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παῖδα

παῖς

adjective

ASZ

a child

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κακὸν

κακός

adjective

SSN

bad

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εἶναι

εἰμί

verb

PAN

to be

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ἢ

ἤ

conjunction

than

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σὲ

σύ

pronoun

AS-

you

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κακοδαίμονα.

κακοδαίμων

adjective

ASZ

miserable

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Translations

and it is better your servant should be bad, than you unhappy.Elizabeth Carter (c.1750)

and it is better that your servant should be bad than you unhappy.Thomas Wentworth Higginson (1890)

and it is better for your slave to be bad than for you to be unhappy.George Long (1890)

It is better for your son to be wicked than for you to be miserable.Percy Ewing Matheson (1916)