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Headword:
*peni/a
Adler number: pi,966
Translated headword: poverty
Vetting Status: high
Translation: "Because of [his] undeserved misfortunes [he] endured poverty."[1]
"So we say that poverty is the sister of destitution."
Aristophanes in
Wealth [sc. says this]. "[sc. Yes,] if also [you say] that Dionysios is like Thrasyboulos." For Dionysios [is] entirely a tyrant, whereas Thrasyboulos [is] a patriot and greater than any speech. In reference to those who compare dissimilar things.[2]
*peni/a: dia\ ta\s a)di/kous pa/qas th=| peni/a| e)nh/qlei. ou)kou=n th=s ptwxei/as peni/an fame\n ei)=nai a)delfh/n. *)aristofa/nhs *plou/tw|. ei)/per kai\ *qrasubou/lw| *dionu/sion ei)=nai o(/moion. o( me\n ga\r *dionu/sios e)cw/lhs tu/rannos, o( de\ *qrasu/boulos filo/polis kai\ panto\s lo/gou krei/ttwn. e)pi\ tw=n mh\ ta\ o(/moia o(moiou/ntwn.
Notes:
See also
pi 967,
pi 968.
[1]
Aelian fr. 315c Domingo-Forasté (318 Hercher); cf.
epsilon 1305,
pi 20.
[2] An exchange between Chremylos and Poverty in
Aristophanes,
Wealth [
Plutus] 549-550 (web address 1), with scholion; cf.
pi 3052. (In the Suda's version of 549 the particle
dh/pou is omitted.) 'Dionysios' here is evidently the tyrant of Syracuse (
delta 1178); and for Thrasyboulos, an Athenian general and elder statesman, see under
alpha 4713.
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Keywords: biography; comedy; daily life; economics; ethics; imagery; politics; proverbs
Translated by: Catharine Roth on 16 June 2011@01:40:55.
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