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Headword: Tithônou gêras
Adler number: tau,578
Translated headword: Tithonus' old age
Vetting Status: high
Translation:
A proverb.[1] It is applied to the long-lived and very old. The story goes that Tithonus, keen to shed his old age, was turned into a cicada.[2]
Aristophanes [writes]: 'tearing and harassing and confounding a Tithonus-man'.[3]
Greek Original:
Tithônou gêras: paroimia. epi tôn poluchroniôn kai hupergêrôn tassetai. historeitai de hoti ho Tithônos epithumiai tou to gêras ekdusasthai eis tettiga metebalen. Aristophanês: andra Tithônon sparattôn kai tarattôn kai kukôn.
Notes:
[1] See Zenobius 6.18 and other paroemiographers.
[2] cf. kappa 497 (and for cicadas generally tau 377, tau 378).
[3] Aristophanes, Acharnians 688 (web address 1); cf. alpha 2159.
Associated internet address:
Web address 1
Keywords: comedy; daily life; mythology; proverbs; zoology
Translated by: David Whitehead on 23 April 2003@04:13:25.
Vetted by:
Catharine Roth (added link, set status) on 19 October 2004@01:25:53.
David Whitehead (more x-refs) on 19 October 2004@03:08:39.
David Whitehead (augmented notes) on 14 August 2011@06:56:01.
Catharine Roth (fixed link) on 19 September 2011@23:00:00.
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