aidos

• “The writers of the fifth century still emphasize the value of aidos, in - sofar as speech is concerned.”

  Dictionary of the History of Ideas

• “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

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

  Dictionary of the History of Ideas

• “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

• “When Thersites spoke, he broke the rules of aidos, the aristocratic virtue of respect and self-respect.”

  Dictionary of the History of Ideas

• “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

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

  NPNF2-09. Hilary of Poitiers, John of Damascus

• “Shamefacedness is derived from _aidos_ in the Greek, and has”

  The Gospel Day Or, the Light of Christianity

• “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

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

  NPNF2-09. Hilary of Poitiers, John of Damascus

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