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Headword:
*ta\
prw=t'
a)ri/stous
pai=das
*ai)/gin'
e)ktre/fei
Adler number: tau,109
Translated headword: at first Aegina brought forth excellent youths
Vetting Status: high
Translation: A proverb.[1] For at its peak,[2] they say, the Aeginetans changed for the worse from [sc the days] of Achilles, Patroclus, Aias [and] Neoptolemus [
Author,
Myth].
Greek Original:*ta\ prw=t' a)ri/stous pai=das *ai)/gin' e)ktre/fei: paroimi/a. e)n a)kmh=| ga/r, fasi/, metaba/llousin e)pi\ to\ xei=ron oi( *ai)ginh=tai a)po\ *)axille/ws, *patro/klou, *ai)/antos, *neoptole/mou.
Notes:
Same entry in
Photius (tau56 Theodoridis), taken to come from
Pausanias the Atticist (tau12); cf.
Apostolius 16.11 and other paroemiographers. See also under
tau 108.
For Aegina (not, in fact, the homeland of any of the four individuals mentioned!) see generally
alphaiota 53.
[1] In the form of an iambic trimeter.
[2] Theodoridis notes Erbse's suggested emendation to 'from its peak'.
Keywords: chronology; daily life; ethics; geography; meter and music; mythology; poetry; proverbs
Translated by: David Whitehead on 9 December 2002@05:59:22.
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