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Headword:
*la/qe
biw/sas
Adler number: lambda,41
Translated headword: live in seclusion; live unnoticed; live unobtrusively
Vetting Status: high
Translation: "[...] of what is customarily said in a proverb, but enforced by him in deed, 'live in seclusion': so that I would not expect any of the men living at that time, [of the younger] or of the older, to understand what I mean."
Greek Original:*la/qe biw/sas: tou= te e)n paroimi/a| le/gesqai ei)wqo/tos, e)/rgw| bebaiwqe/ntos u(p' e)kei/nou, tou= la/qe biw/sas: w(/ste ou)de/na tw=n to/te zw/ntwn a)nqrw/pwn ou)/te tw=n presbute/rwn e)lpi/saim' a)\n ei)de/nai oi(=on le/gw.
Notes:
Damascius,
Life of Isidore fr. 34 Zintzen (22 Asmus); given more fully at
sigma 116.
For the proverb see also
nu 192, and generally Tosi [see under
alpha 378] no.244.
Reference:
Geert Roskam, Live unnoticed (Lathe biosas): on the vicissitudes of an Epicurean doctrine (Leiden 2007)
Keywords: biography; chronology; daily life; ethics; philosophy; proverbs
Translated by: Catharine Roth on 6 July 2004@01:20:33.
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