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Headword:
*kataghra=sai
*tiqwnou=
baqu/teron
kai\
tou=
*kinu/rou
plousiw/teron
kai\
*sardanapa/lou
truferw/teron,
o(/pws
to\
th=s
paroimi/as
e)pi\
soi\
plhrwqh=|:
di\s
pai=des
oi(
ge/rontes
Adler number: kappa,497
Translated headword: to grow old deeper than Tithonus and richer than Kinyras and daintier than Sardanapalus so that in your case the proverb would be fulfilled: the old are children again
Vetting Status: high
Translation: Something said in reference to the long-lived. When Tithonus became very old he was turned by prayer into a cicada; Kinyras, a descendant of Pharnake and king of
Cyprus,[1] was exceptionally rich; and Sardanapalus, king of Assyria, died after a life of excess and luxury.
*kataghra=sai *tiqwnou= baqu/teron kai\ tou= *kinu/rou plousiw/teron kai\ *sardanapa/lou truferw/teron, o(/pws to\ th=s paroimi/as e)pi\ soi\ plhrwqh=|: di\s pai=des oi( ge/rontes: e)pi\ tw=n poluxroni/wn lego/menon. o( de\ *tiqwno\s u(pe/rghrws geno/menos kat' eu)xh\n ei)s te/ttiga mete/bale: *kinu/ras de/, a)po/gonos *farna/khs, basileu\s *kupri/wn, plou/tw| diafe/rwn: *sardana/palos de/, *)assuri/wn basileu/s, e)p' a)kolasi/a| kai\ trufh=| diabiou\s e)teleu/thsen.
Notes:
The long headword phrase comes from a
Letter of the emperor Julian (no.82 Bidez-Cumont); cf.
Appendix Proverbiorum 4.68.
For 'the old are children again' see under
delta 1267; for Kinyras,
kappa 1651; for Sardanapalus,
sigma 121,
sigma 122; for Tithonus,
tau 578.
[1] Better at
sigma 122: 'a descendant of Pharnakes, [sc. who was] a king of
Cyprus'.
Translated by: David Whitehead on 23 April 2003@04:03:44.
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