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Headword:
*)epi\
ta\
*mandrobo/lou
Adler number: epsilon,2659
Translated headword: on Mandrobolos' property
Vetting Status: high
Translation: [sc. A proverbial phrase] in reference to those experiencing a turn for the worse. [Arising] from a certain Mandrobolos, who discovered the quarry in
Samos:[1] at first he dedicated a golden ram,[2] then a silver one, then a smaller bronze one, and then no longer [made any dedications], according to
Ephorus.[3]
*)epi\ ta\ *mandrobo/lou: e)pi\ tw=n ei)s ta\ xei/rona trepome/nwn. a)po\ *mandrobo/lou tino\s to\ e)n *sa/mw| gewfa/nion eu(ro/ntos kai\ prw=ton me\n krio\n xrusou=n a)naqe/ntos, e)/peita a)rgurou=n, e)/peita xalkou=n e)la/ttona, ei)=ta ou)ke/ti, w(s *)/eforos.
Notes:
cf.
Zenobius 3.82, and see again under
epsilon 2716.
[1] cf.
gamma 174, and see generally G. Shipley,
A History of Samos 800-188 BC (Oxford 1987) appendix 2; 'Samian Earth' seems to have been a kind of fuller's earth.
[2] A ram, because, according to a scholiast on
Nicander's
Alexipharmaka, this was the creature that accidentally found the deposits.
[3]
Ephorus FGrH 70 F59b.
Translated by: David Whitehead on 22 April 2003@05:05:49.
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