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Headword:
*to\n
*kolofw=na
e)pe/qhken
Adler number: tau,766
Translated headword: he added the finishing touch
Vetting Status: high
Translation: [sc. A proverb deriving] from the occasion when the Kolophonians were fighting each other and part of them went to settle with the Smyrnaians. On one occasion the Smyrnaians were away for a war, one time, and the Kolophonians who had been left behind in
Smyrna took over the city; as a result, the Kolophonians had two cities,
Kolophon and
Smyrna. And in deliberating about anything, the Smyrnaians who had been left behind with the Kolophonians in
Smyrna ceded their votes to the Kolophonians when the votes were equal, and the vote was won by this addition. And thus the saying applied to every matter of supreme sovereignty is 'to add the finishing touch to the rest', as in reference to the 2nd votes of the Kolophonians [being added] to the other [vote] of these.[1]
*to\n *kolofw=na e)pe/qhken: e)k tou= tou\s *kolofwni/ous pro\s e(autou\s stasia/santa/s tina tou/twn moi=ran cunoiki/sai toi=s *smurnai/ois. ei)s po/lemon de/ pote/ tina a)pelqo/ntwn *smurnai/wn, tou\s me\n u(poleifqe/ntas e)n *smu/rnh| *kolofwni/ous krath=sai au)th=s: w(s tou\s *kolofwni/ous e)k tou/tou du/o po/leis e)/xein, th/n te *kolofw=na kai\ *smu/rnan. kai\ e)n tw=| bouleu/esqai peri/ tinos *smurnai/ous, oi(\ u(pelei/fqhsan meta\ tw=n *kolofwni/wn e)n *smu/rnh|, o(/te i)/sai yh=foi tou/tois e)ge/nonto, pro\s tou\s *kolofwni/ous a)nafe/rein au)ta/s, kai\ h(=| prose/qento, tau/thn kratei=n. kai\ ou(/tw le/getai e)pi\ panto\s tou= kuriwta/tou to\n *kolofw=na e)piti/qesqai toi=s loipoi=s, w(s e)pi\ tw=n yh/fwn tw=n b# tw=n *kolofwni/wn th=| tou/twn e(te/ra|.
Notes:
See already under
tau 765.
[1] The end of the passage was regarded by Kuster as corrupt.
Translated by: David Whitehead on 16 December 2002@04:07:27.
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