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Headword:
*ou)
fronti\s
*(ippoklei/dh|
Adler number: omicron,978
Translated headword: not a care to Hippocleides; Hippocleides doesn't care
Vetting Status: high
Translation: A proverb, which
Hermippus mentions in
Demesmen.[1]
Hippocleides the son of Teisander intended to marry Agariste, the daughter of the Sicyonian tyrant Cleisthenes, but on the very day of the marriage he danced excessively. When Cleisthenes had changed his mind and given his daughter to Megacles the son of Alcmeon, and told Hippocleides clearly that he had danced away the marriage to Agariste, he replied saying: "Hippocleides doesn't care."[2]
*ou) fronti\s *(ippoklei/dh|: paroimi/a, h(=s me/mnhtai *(/ermippos e)n *dhmo/tais. *(ippoklei/dhs o( *tisa/ndrou me/llwn gamei=n *)agari/sthn th\n *kleisqe/nous tou= *sikuwni/ou qugate/ra tou= tura/nnou e)n au)th=| th=| tw=n ga/mwn h(me/ra| e)pwrxh/sato perittw=s. metabouleusame/nou de\ tou= *kleisqe/nous kai\ *megaklei= tw=| *)alkmai/wnos th\n qugate/ra do/ntos, pro\s de\ to\n *(ippoklei/dhn fanerw=s ei)po/ntos, o(/ti a)pw/rxhtai to\n ga/mon to\n *)agari/sths, u(potuxw\n e)/fh: ou) fronti\s *(ippoklei/dh|.
Notes:
Same entry in
Photius,
Lexicon omicron697 Theodoridis (taken to come from
Pausanias the Atticist omicron42). Also in
Zenobius 5.31 and other paroemiographers.
[1]
Hermippus [a comic poet contemporary with
Aristophanes] fr. 16 K.-A. (17 Kock).
[2] This famous story, from the first quarter of the C6 BCE, is related by
Herodotus 6.129-130: web address 1 below. The usage of the phrase
u(potuxw\n e)/fh, which is peculiar to Aesopic fable and novel (like
u(polabw\n e)/fh) is a clear mark of the character of this anecdote as an
exemplum.
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Keywords: biography; comedy; daily life; ethics; geography; historiography; history; proverbs; women
Translated by: Jennifer Benedict on 2 December 2000@13:36:47.
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