[sc. The injunction/proverb arises] because men ought to change themselves and take their affairs in hand.
*meta/fere sauto/n. o(/ti prosh/kei e(autou\s metafe/rein kai\ metaxeiri/zesqai ta\ pra/gmata.
The headword phrase -- in the imperative mode, and perhaps modelled on the famous Delphic maxim "know yourself" (
gamma 333,
gamma 334) -- looks proverbial but is not attested as such. The closest extant parallel for it occurs in Marcus Aurelius,
Meditations 8.41.1:
pa/nta dh\ tau=ta e)pi\ seauto\n meta/fere "change all these things toward yourself".
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