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Headword:
*ou)de\
purfo/ros
Adler number: omicron,813
Translated headword: not even a fire-bearer
Vetting Status: high
Translation: Whenever we want to indicate that the dead [sc. after a battle] are numerous, we say that not even a fire-bearer was left behind. In effect, not even the man who will carry the fire into the city. [It is] the same as if we were saying not even a tent-watchman, or someone similar.
Greek Original:*ou)de\ purfo/ros: o(/tan pollou\s a)pofh=nai boulw/meqa tou\s teleuth/santas, le/gomen, o(/ti ou)de\ purfo/ros u(pelei/fqh. oi(=on ou)de\ o( to\ pu=r oi)/swn ei)s th\n po/lin. kaqa/per ei) e)le/gomen, ou)de\ skhnofu/lac, h)/ tis tw=n paraplhsi/wn.
Notes:
Same entry in
Photius,
Lexicon omicron621 Theodoridis (with references to similar ones elsewhere, including in several of the paroemiographers); and see also
omicron 814,
pi 3251.
This (eventually) proverbial phrase is first attested in
Herodotus 8.6.2: the Persians' intention at Artemisium (480 BCE) was that 'not even a fire-bearer should escape and survive'. See generally LSJ s.v.
purfo/ros, II (web address 1).
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Keywords: daily life; historiography; history; imagery; military affairs; proverbs; religion
Translated by: David Whitehead on 30 September 2002@03:36:58.
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