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*patroklh=s
Adler number: pi,795
Translated headword: Patrokles, Patrocles
Vetting Status: high
Translation: A proper name. [sc. There is] also a proverb: out of Patrokles' [sc. house].[1] In reference to those who are dirty and squalid. For Patrokles was an Athenian, extremely rich but in other respects someone who lived a bad life, avaricious and stingy; with economy in mind he allowed no-one to come near him; he wanted to safeguard his money and his mean life. So when Wealth is asked "where are you coming from?", he said "out of Patrokles'."
Greek Original:*patroklh=s: o)/noma ku/rion. kai\ paroimi/a: e)k *patrokle/ous. e)pi\ tw=n r(upw/ntwn kai\ au)xmhrw=n: *patroklh=s ga\r e)ge/neto *)aqhnai=os, plou/sios sfo/dra, a)/llws de\ kako/bio/s tis kai\ filoxrh/matos kai\ sknipo/s: o(/stis e(/neken th=s feidwli/as ou)de/na ei)/a prosi/esqai, fulakh=s e(/neka tw=n xrhma/twn kai\ gli/sxrou bi/ou. o( *plou=tos ou)=n e)rwtw/menos, po/qen badi/zeis; e)k *patrokle/ous, e)/fh.
Notes:
From the
scholia to
Aristophanes,
Wealth [
Plutus] 84, where the quoted phrase appears (see web address 1). Other
scholia there address more directly the point actually clear in the original - that Patrokles avoided the public baths; so "come near him" implies to wash him. See generally Kassel-Austin, PCG III.2 p.455, on
Aristophanes fr. 455.
[1] In the paroemiographer
Apostolius (13.100) it is "more stingy than Patrokles".
Web address 1
Keywords: biography; comedy; daily life; definition; economics; ethics; proverbs
Translated by: David Whitehead on 10 October 2001@04:16:16.
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