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Headword:
Aiguptia
klêmatis
Adler number: alphaiota,76
Translated headword: Egyptian vine-branch.
Vetting Status: high
Translation: [sc. A proverbial phrase] in reference to lean and fairly tall men; such a man was
Zeno of Citium. It is said that he consulted the oracle to learn how he might live the best life, and that the god's answer was that he should go skin-to-skin with the dead. Hence, understanding the implication of this, he read the works of the ancients.[1]
Aiguptia klêmatis: epi tôn ischnôn kai hupomêkôn: hopoios ên Zênôn ho Kitieus. hon phasi chrêstêriazomenon pôs arista biôsetai, apokrinasthai ton theon, ei sunchrôtizoito tois nekrois. hothen xunenta ta tôn archaiôn anaginôskein.
Notes:
This material is drawn from the opening chapters of
Diogenes Laertius'
Life of Zeno: briefly 7.1 (on the present headword phrase, for which '
Chrysippus [
chi 568] in the first book of his
Proverbs' is cited) and more fully 7.2.
[1] cf.
sigma 1313.
Translated by: Phiroze Vasunia on 20 February 2000@21:52:07.
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