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Headword:
*)arxh\
a)/ndra
dei/knusin
Adler number: alpha,4096
Translated headword: office exposes a man
Vetting Status: high
Translation: [sc. A proverb] applied to those who are decent men before holding office but become violent in the post itself.
They say that this a dictum of
Solon's, though
Aristotle and
Theophrastus [says it is]
Bias's.
*)arxh\ a)/ndra dei/knusin: e)pi\ tw=n pro\ me\n th=s a)rxh=s e)pieikw=n, e)n au)th=| de\ th=| a)rxh=| biai/wn genome/nwn. *so/lwnos de\ ei)=nai/ fasin au)to\ a)po/fqegma, *)aristote/lhs de\ kai\ *qeo/frastos *bi/antos.
Notes:
The proverb -- Tosi [see under
alpha 378] no.181 -- is quoted in one of the
Exordia (
Proems) of
Demosthenes (48.2).
The present entry is a cut-down version of the one in Harpokration, where
Sophocles (among his elegies: fr.2 West) is cited for the attribution to
Solon. The
Aristotle reference is to
Nicomachean Ethics 1130a1; for
Theophrastus, fr.737 Fortenbaugh. On
Bias of
Priene see
beta 270.
Translated by: David Whitehead on 10 October 2000@09:50:42.
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