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Headword:
*dw=ra
qeou\s
pei/qei
kai\
ai)doi/ous
basilh=as
Adler number: delta,1451
Translated headword: gifts sway gods and revered kings
Vetting Status: high
Translation: Some consider the line Hesiodic, and it is also uttered by
Plato in the third [book of the]
Republic.
Greek Original:*dw=ra qeou\s pei/qei kai\ ai)doi/ous basilh=as: oi( me\n *(hsio/deion oi)/ontai to\n sti/xon, ei)/rhtai de\ kai\ *pla/twnos e)n tri/th| *politei/a|.
Notes:
Hesiod fr.361 Merkelbach-West, preferring
Plato's version of this hexameter line (
Republic 390E:
dw=ra qeou\s pei/qei, dw=r' ai)doi/ous basilh=as). The Suda's version with 'and' for the second 'gifts' occurs also in
Apostolius 6.42; and see futher Tosi (cited under
alpha 378) no.491.
A variation (or perhaps derivative) of the sentiment is also spoken by Medea in
Euripides,
Medea 964. See also in Latin literature Ovid,
Ars Amatoria 3.653-4 (
Munera, crede mihi, capiunt hominesque deosque: / Placatur donis Iuppiter ipse datis) and Horace,
Odes 3.16.13-16.
See also
theta 45 for the related maxim that Death is the one god without an interest in gifts.
Keywords: daily life; ethics; meter and music; philosophy; poetry; proverbs; religion; tragedy
Translated by: David Whitehead on 13 May 2003@04:42:49.
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