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Headword: *)epi\ sautw=| th\n selh/nhn kaqe/lkeis
Adler number: epsilon,2559
Translated headword: you are drawing down the moon on yourself
Vetting Status: high
Translation:
The Thessalian women who draw down the moon are said to lose their eyes and feet. So the proverb is said of those causing themselves harm.
Greek Original:
*)epi\ sautw=| th\n selh/nhn kaqe/lkeis: ai( th\n selh/nhn kaqe/lkousai *qettali/des le/gontai tw=n o)fqalmw=n kai\ tw=n podw=n steri/skesqai. ei)/rhtai ou)=n h( paroimi/a e)pi\ tw=n e(autoi=s kaka\ e)pispwme/nwn.
Notes:
Zenobius 4.1, etc. For Thessalian witches see theta 289.
The saying is best known from Plato, Gorgias 513A (web address 1).
Reference:
E.R. Dodds, Plato, Gorgias. A revised text with introduction and commentary. Oxford: O.U.P., 1959, p.351
Associated internet address:
Web address 1
Keywords: daily life; gender and sexuality; medicine; philosophy; proverbs; religion; women
Translated by: David Whitehead on 22 April 2003@04:06:00.
Vetted by:
Catharine Roth (cosmetics) on 5 July 2003@17:17:57.
David Whitehead (augmented note) on 6 July 2003@05:29:19.
Tony Natoli (Added note, reference and link.) on 16 June 2004@21:40:59.
David Whitehead on 17 October 2012@09:51:48.
Catharine Roth (tweaked link) on 9 October 2017@01:13:38.
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