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[*] 593. o( e(/teros (e(/teros) in a bad sense. “ὁ ἕτερος” (“ἕτερος”) is sometimes used in the sense of bad, hostile. Familiar is the phrase “πλέον θάτερον ποιεῖν”, to make bad worse. Cf. the English “to laugh on the other side of the mouth.” DEM.22.12: “ὅσα πώποτε τῇ πόλει γέγον᾽ ἢ νῦν ἔστ᾽ ἀγάθ᾽ ἢ θάτερα”. (Cf. LYS. 12.48: “ἀγαθοῦ μὲν οὐδενὸς μετέσχεν, ἄλλων δὲ πολλῶν”.) ISOC.19.25: “ἀλλ᾽ οὐδ᾽ ἐπισκεψόμενος ἀφίκετο” (sc. “οὐδεὶς τῶν συγγενῶν”) “πλὴν τῆς μητρὸς καὶ τῆς ἀδελφῆς, αἳ πλέον θάτερον ἐποίησαν”. PLATO, Euthyd. 280E: “πλέον γάρ που, οἶμαι, θάτερόν ἐστιν, ἐάν τις χρῆται ὁτῳοῦν μὴ ὀρθῶς πράγματι ἢ ἐὰν ἐᾷ”. Phaedo 114 E: “ὡς ἀλλοτρίους τε ὄντας” (sc. “τοὺς κόσμους”) “καὶ πλέον θάτερον ἡγησάμενος ἀπεργάζεσθαι”. SOPH. Ph. 501-3: “εἰσορῶν” | “ὡς πάντα δεινὰ κἀπικινδύνως βροτοῖς” | “κεῖται, παθεῖν μὲν εὖ, παθεῖν δὲ θάτερα”. PIND. P. 3.34-5: “δαίμων δ᾽ ἕτερος” | “ἐς κακὸν τρέψαις ἐδαμάσσατό νιν”. Cf. N. 8.3: “τὸν μὲν ἁμέροις ἀνάγκας χερσὶ βαστάζεις, ἕτερον δ᾽ ἑτέραις”.
Syntax of Classical Greek from Homer to Demosthenes. Basil L. Gildersleeve. New York. American Book Company. 1900.
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