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Headword:
*xelw/nh
muiw=n
Adler number: chi,191
Translated headword: a tortoise [uncaring] of flies
Vetting Status: high
Translation: [sc. a proverbial phrase] in reference to those who think little of someone/something.[1]
Also [sc. attested is] 'to a tortoise'. "You think your frankness is 'worth four obols', as the saying goes. You do not know that Thersites was also outspoken among the Greeks; but the frankness of Thersites mattered less to Agamemnon than flies to a tortoise, as the proverb has it."[2]
When a tortoise being carried by an eagle was thrown at the head of
Aeschylus the Athenian, he died, being 58 years old.[3]
*xelw/nh muiw=n: e)pi\ tw=n a)frontistou/ntwn tino/s. kai\ *xelw/nh|: th\n parrhsi/an th\n sh\n oi)/ei tetta/rwn ei)=nai o)bolw=n, to\ lego/menon. ou)k oi)=sqa, o(/ti kai\ *qersi/ths e)n toi=s *(/ellhsin e)parrhsia/zeto: tw=| de\ *)agame/mnoni th=s *qersi/tou parrhsi/as e)/latton e)/melen h)\ xelw/nh| muiw=n, to\ th=s paroimi/as. o(/ti xelw/nhs e)pirrifei/shs *ai)sxu/lw| tw=| *)aqhnai/w| u(po\ a)etou= fe/rontos kata\ th=s kefalh=s, a)pw/leto, e)tw=n nh# geno/menos.
Notes:
[1] cf.
Appendix Proverbiorum 5.27 (etc.)
[2] Julian,
Epistles 82.106; cf.
tau 368. (Thersites features in
Homer,
Iliad 2, as an ugly Greek soldier who speaks out against Agamemnon and is quickly silenced with a blow from Odysseus. See
theta 257.)
[3] An apocryphal tale about the death of
Aeschylus; from
alphaiota 357.
Translated by: Jennifer Benedict on 19 March 2008@12:01:50.
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