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Theognis has an implicit rebuke for those who believe that aidos is a virtue of the eyes only, not also of the mouth.
Dictionary of the History of Ideas ARNALDO MOMIGLIANO 1968
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When Thersites spoke, he broke the rules of aidos, the aristocratic virtue of respect and self-respect.
Dictionary of the History of Ideas ARNALDO MOMIGLIANO 1968
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In earlier times the notion of liberty (eleutheria) Page 259, Volume 2 did not include freedom of speech: indeed, another important notion of Greek archaic ethics, aidos
Dictionary of the History of Ideas ARNALDO MOMIGLIANO 1968
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Homer represents his aristocrats endowed with “gentle aidos” (Odyssey VIII, 172).
Dictionary of the History of Ideas ARNALDO MOMIGLIANO 1968
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The writers of the fifth century still emphasize the value of aidos, in - sofar as speech is concerned.
Dictionary of the History of Ideas ARNALDO MOMIGLIANO 1968
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Thus the Greeks of classical times were in moral questions influenced rather by non-religious conceptions such as that of aidos (natural shame) than by fear of the gods; while one great religious system, namely Buddhism, explicitly taught the entire independence of the moral code from any belief in God.
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 10: Mass Music-Newman 1840-1916 1913
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Various reading is, ho de Theos panta aidos haplos bouletai.
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Shamefacedness is derived from _aidos_ in the Greek, and has
The Gospel Day Or, the Light of Christianity Charles Ebert Orr 1897
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The sensuous frenzy of his juvenile poems is still remembered against him; it betrayed a lack of moral dignity, of what the Greek poets, whom he so much admired, meant by the word [Greek: aidos].
Studies in Literature and History Alfred Comyn Lyall 1873
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* ho de Theos panta aidos haplos bouletai: [1629] 1
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