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Headword:
*mh/
ti
Adler number: mu,994
Translated headword: not at all
Vetting Status: high
Translation: [Meaning] in no manner.[1]
"In no way did Isidore obey the injunction; instead
Ibycus' verse came against him: 'not at all to exchange honour among men by failing with the gods.'"[2]
*mh/ ti: mhdamw=s. ou)/pw de\ e)pei/qeto tw=| prosta/gmati o( *)isi/dwros, a)lla\ to\ tou= *)ibu/kou e)/pos au)to\n e)ph/|ei, mh/ ti para\ qeoi=s a)mplakw\n tima\n pro\s a)nqrw/pwn a)mei/yh|.
Notes:
[1] Same glossing in other lexica (see the references at
Photius mu417 Theodoridis) and in a scholion on
Homer,
Iliad 4.42, where the headword phrase occurs (web address 1).
[2]
Damascius,
Life of Isidore fr. 253 Zintzen (150 Asmus), quoted already at
alpha 1654 and
iota 78. The
Ibycus quotation is an approximation of his fr. 29 Page: "I fear that, failing with the gods, I will exchange honour among men" (quoted by
Plato,
Phaedrus 242C-D: web address 2).
Web address 1,
Web address 2
Keywords: biography; definition; epic; ethics; philosophy; poetry; religion
Translated by: Catharine Roth on 14 April 2008@11:18:23.
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