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Headword:
*)arxi/as
Adler number: alpha,4104
Translated headword: Archias
Vetting Status: high
Translation: [
Archias], a Syracusan,[1] and Myskellos, an Achaian,[2] had come to
Delphi[3] at the same time and they were asking to receive a good prophecy for the cities they were about to colonize, [about] what the life was that was fated to themselves and to their cities.[4] And the Pythia[5] said, "Since you have a people that inhabits the country and the city, you came to ask Phoebus [Apollo] what land to go to. But come now, tell me which boon you prefer, to have a wealth of possessions or most agreeable health?" Now when they heard this,
Archias, since he was a lover of wealth, chooses the amplification of wealth, nor was he beguiled of his hope; at any rate Syracuse became a very rich city, in accordance with the Pythian oracle.[6] Myskellos, though, chooses for himself and his city to have good health, and he got what he asked for. As proof, at any rate, of the good health in Croton,[7] the inhabitants are of strong body, and the city became the mother of many fine athletes. Wealth and health are both gifts, then. The stout choice and healthy thought chooses the better things, and these men are evidence, the one that was wiser, and the other that was not altogether a gentleman. For, of the good things of mankind, one is greater and one is second, as
Plato says[8] and the song goes.[9]
*)arxi/as, *surakou/sios kai\ *mu/skellos *)axaio\s h(=kon e)s *delfou\s e)n tw=| au)tw=| tou= xro/nou kai\ h)/|toun a)/ra u(pe\r w(=n e)/mellon oi)ki/zein po/lewn fh/mhn a)gaqh\n labei=n, to\n e)pinhsqe/nta au)toi=s te kai\ tai=s po/lesin au)tw=n bi/on. le/gei de\ h( *puqi/a: xw/ras kai\ po/lews oi)kh/tora lao\n e)/xontes h)/lqet' e)rhso/menoi *foi=bon, ti/na gai=an i(/khsqe: a)ll' a)/ge dh\ fra/zesq' a)gaqw=n po/tero/n ken e(/loisqe, plou=ton e)/xein ktea/nwn h)\ terpnota/thn u(gi/eian. e)pei\ toi/nun tau=ta h)kousa/thn, *)arxi/as w)\n filoxrh/matos plou/tou peribolh\n ai(rei=tai, ou)de\ e)yeu/sqh th=s e)lpi/dos: pamplou/sios gou=n *sura/kousa h( po/lis kata\ th\n fh/mhn th\n *puqia/da e)ge/neto. *mu/skellos de\ ai(rei=tai au)to/s te u(giai/nein kai\ h( po/lis: kai\ a)pw/nhto w(=n h)/|thse. dei=gma gou)=n th=s e)n *kro/twni u(giei/as r(wmale/oi te/ ei)sin oi( oi)kh/tores, kai\ a)qlhtw=n h( po/lis pollw=n kai\ a)gaqw=n mh/thr e)ge/neto. plou=tos a)/ra kai\ u(gi/eia dw=ra a)/mfw e)sto/n: ai(/resis de\ e)rrwme/nh kai\ dia/noia u(giai/nousa ai(rei=tai ta\ belti/w, kai\ a)pe/fhnan kai\ ou(=toi, o( me\n sunetw/teros w)\n, o( de\ ou) pa/nth| e)leuqe/rios. tw=n ga\r ou)=n a)gaqw=n tw=n a)nqrwpikw=n to\ me\n presbu/teron, to\ de\ deu/teron, w(s kai\ *pla/twn fhsi\ kai\ to\ skolio\n a)/|dei.
Notes:
Source:
Aelian fr. 346 Hercher (343 Domingo-Forasté); cf.
Strabo 6.2.4; the
scholia to
Aristophanes,
Knights 1091; and
mu 1473.
[1] More exactly, a Corinthian who became the oikist (founder) of Syracuse, c.734 BCE.
[2] Achaia was a large region of the N. Peloponnese, west of Corinth. Myskellos actually came from the city of Rhypes.
[3] See generally
delta 210.
[4] cf.
epsilon 2490.
[5] See generally
pi 3127.
[6] cf.
sigma 1659.
[7] cf.
kappa 2482.
[8]
Plato,
Gorgias 451E (web address 1 below): good health is best, beauty second, riches -- fairly acquired -- third.
[9] cf.
sigma 644.
J. Fontenrose, The Delphic Oracle: its Responses and Operations, with a Catalogue of Responses (Berkeley & Los Angeles 1978) 279, Q31; see also QQ28, 29, 30, 36.
Associated internet address:
Web address 1
Keywords: aetiology; athletics; biography; economics; ethics; geography; medicine; meter and music; mythology; philosophy; religion
Translated by: John Henkel on 1 May 2002@16:33:37.
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