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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

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

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

Homer represents his aristocrats endowed with “gentle aidos” (Odyssey VIII, 172).

Dictionary of the History of Ideas ARNALDO MOMIGLIANO 1968

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

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

Various reading is, ho de Theos panta aidos haplos bouletai.

NPNF2-09. Hilary of Poitiers, John of Damascus 1898

Shamefacedness is derived from _aidos_ in the Greek, and has

The Gospel Day Or, the Light of Christianity Charles Ebert Orr 1897

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

* ho de Theos panta aidos haplos bouletai: [1629] 1

NPNF2-09. Hilary of Poitiers, John of Damascus 1898