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courage [ edit ]
Concerned with
Mean
Excess
Deficiency
fear (phobos ) and confidence (tharsos )
Courage (andreia ): mean in fear and confidenceFirst Type. excess has no special name but exceeds in fearlessnessCowardly (deilos ): exceeds in fear and is deficient in confidence
Second Type. Rash (thrasus ): exceeds in confidence
moderation [ edit ]
Concerned with
Mean
Excess
Deficiency
pleasure (hēdonē ) and pain (lupē )
Temperance (sōphrosunē )Profligacy, dissipation, etc. (akolasia )
scarcely occurs, but we may call it Insensible (anaisthētos )
liberality [ edit ]
Concerned with
Mean
Excess
Deficiency
giving and getting (smaller amounts of) money
Liberality (Rackham), generosity (Sachs) (eleutheriotēs )Prodigality (Rackham), Wastefulness (Sachs) (asōtia )
Meanness (Rackham), Stinginess (Sachs) (aneleutheria )
magnificence [ edit ]
Concerned with
Mean
Excess
Deficiency
giving and getting greater things
Magnificence (megaloprepeia )Tastelessness (apeirokalia ) or Vulgarity (banausia )
Paltriness (Rackham), Chintziness (Sachs) (mikroprepeia )
greatness of soul [ edit ]
Type of behavior
Mean
Excess
Deficiency
great honor (timē ) and dishonor
Greatness of Soul (traditional translation "magnanimity") (megalopsuchia )Vanity (chaunotēs )
Smallness of Soul (mikropsuchia )
smaller honors [ edit ]
Type of behavior
Mean
Excess
Deficiency
lesser honor (timē ) and dishonor
no special term in ancient Greek for the right amount of ambition
(Over-)ambitiousness (philotimos )
lack of ambition (aphilotimos )
gentleness [ edit ]
Type of behavior
Mean
Excess
Deficiency
anger (orgē )
Gentleness (praotēs )Irascibility (Rackham), Irritability (Sachs) (orgilotēs )
Spiritlessness (aorgẽsia )
truthfulness [ edit ]
Type of behavior
Mean
Excess
Deficiency
truth (alēthēs )
Truthfulness (alētheia )Boastfulness: pretense as exaggeration (alazoneia )
Self-deprecation: pretense as understatement (eironia , same word as "irony ")
ἀληθής
ἀλήθεια
ἀλαζονεία
εἰρωνεία
wittiness [ edit ]
Type of behavior
Mean
Excess
Deficiency
pleasantness and social amusement
Wittiness (Rackham) Charming (Sachs) (eutrapelos )Buffoonery (bõmolochia )
Boorishness bõmolochos
Type of behavior
Mean
Excess
Deficiency
general pleasantness in life
Friendliness (philia )First Type. obsequious, if for no purpose (areskos )quarrelsome (duseris ) and surly (duskolos )
Second type. flatterer, if for own advantage (kolax )
References [ edit ] 
