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Headword:
*oi)/koi
Adler number: omicroniota,91
Translated headword: at home
Vetting Status: high
Translation: [Meaning] in the house.[1]
And [there is] a proverb:[2] "[keep] Milesian ways at home". In reference to those displaying finery in inappropriate circumstances; for once,
Aristagoras of Miletus went to
Sparta to ask for help for the Ionians, whom the Persians were fighting in a war. He made a speech wearing expensive clothing and the rest of his Ionian finery; so one of the Ephors said to him "[keep] Milesian ways at home".
*oi)/koi: e)n tw=| oi)/kw|. kai\ paroimi/a: *oi)/koi ta\ *milh/sia. e)pi\ tw=n o(/pou mh\ prosh/kei th\n trufh\n e)pideiknume/nwn: *)aristago/ras ga\r o( *milh/sios e)lqw/n pote ei)s *lakedai/mona h)ci/ou bohqei=n toi=s *)/iwsi polemoume/nois u(po\ *persw=n. e)dhmhgo/rei de\ e)sqh=ta e)/xwn polutelh= kai\ th\n a)/llhn trufh\n th\n *)iwnikh/n. ei)=pen ou)=n tis pro\s au)to\n tw=n *)efo/rwn: oi)/koi ta\ *milh/sia.
Notes:
[1] Locative form from
oi)=kos (paroxytone, unlike the nominative plural). Likewise in other lexica.
[2]
Zenobius 5.57. For
Aristagoras in
Sparta in 499 BCE see generally
Herodotus 5.49-51 (without this particular anecdote, but with others). For Miletus see generally
mu 1060.
Translated by: David Whitehead on 15 December 2002@09:24:50.
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