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Headword:
*)emoi/
te
e)pistolai/
Adler number: epsilon,1062
Translated headword: I have letters
Vetting Status: high
Translation: "[I have letters] puffed up or deflated, than which no one wrote ones more lofty than Capaneus [sc. would have written].[1] Concerning them I often call the gods[2] to mind; and shouting that [verse], 'Io Nemesis and the deep-booming thunder of Zeus,'[3] I forbade him to go."
Greek Original:*)emoi/ te e)pistolai/ e)parqei\s h)\ xaunwqei/s, w(=n ou)qei\s e)/grayen u(yhlote/ras tou= *kapane/ws, u(pe\r w(=n tou\s qeou\s qeou\s polla/kis u(pomimnh/skw, kai\ to/, *)iw\ *ne/mesi kai\ to\ *dio\s baru/bromoi brontai/, boh/sas, a)phgo/reusa au)tw=| mh\ foita=n.
Notes:
The quotation, which reappears with some variation at
upsilon 747, is unidentifiable. (Adler notes Jonathan Toup's attribution of it to either the emperor Julian or
Synesius.)
[1] A byword for superior pride, Capaneus, one of mythology's Seven Against
Thebes, boasted that not even Zeus could stop him scaling the city's walls -- whereupon he was destroyed by a thunderbolt.
[2] The electronic text erroneously repeats
qeou\s (singular at
upsilon 747).
[3]
Euripides,
Phoenician Women 182 (web address 1); see also
iota 454,
nu 162.
Web address 1
Keywords: biography; ethics; imagery; mythology; religion; rhetoric; tragedy
Translated by: Catharine Roth on 24 March 2007@23:31:16.
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