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(
sumpheron
), beneficial: what conduces to the good.

(
agathon
), good: what causes the preservation of beings; the cause toward which everything tends, from which is derived what should be chosen.

(
s
ō
phron
), self-controlled: being orderly in the soul.

(
dikaion
), just: prescription of law which produces justice.
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(
hekousion
), voluntary: what produces its own action; what is chosen for itself; what is achieved with thinking.

(
eleutheron
), free: what rules itself.

(
metrion
), moderate: in between excess and insufficiency, satisfying the strictures of skill.

(
metron
), measure: the mean between excess and insufficiency.

(
athlon aret
ē
s
), prize of virtue: the reward worth choosing for its own sake.

(
athanasia
), immortality: the eternal duration of a living substance.
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(
hosion
), holy: service to a god which is agreeable to the god.

(
heort
ē
), festival: time that is sacred by law.

(anthr
ō
pos), man: wingless, two-footed, flat-fingernailed animal; the only being capable of acquiring [b] rational knowledge.

(
thusia
), sacrifice: offering of a victim to a god.