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Headword:
*cenofa/nhs
Adler number: xi,46
Translated headword: Xenophanes
Vetting Status: high
Translation: [
Xenophanes bears witness] in an elegy to him [=
Pythagoras] having been different people at different times;[1] and they say that once he was passing while a puppy was being abused and he took pity and said, 'Stop, don't thrash him, since it is the soul of a friend that I recognized talking as I listened.'
Cratinus also mocked him in
Pythagoress [
Pythagorizousa]. And in
Tarentines [
Tarantinoi] [he writes]: 'it's their custom, if they catch some layman entering, to test the power of his words, to rattle and confound him cleverly with opposites, with definitions, with balanced clauses, with fallacies, with sublimities.'[2]
*cenofa/nhs e)n e)legei/a| peri\ tou= a)/llote a)/llon au)to\n gegenh=sqai: kai/ pote/ min stufelizome/nou sku/lakos pario/nta fasi/ g' e)poiktei=rai kai\ to/de fa/sqai e)/pos: pau=sai, mhde\ r(a/piz', e)peih\ fi/lou a)ne/ros e)sti\ yuxh/, th\n e)/gnwn fqegcame/nhn a)i/+wn. e)/skwye d' au)to\n kai\ *krati=nos e)n *puqagorizou/sh|. kai\ e)n *taranti/nois: e)/qos e)sti\n au)toi=s, e)a\n i)diw/thn poqe\n la/bwsin ei)selqo/nta, diapeirw/menon th=s tw=n lo/gwn r(w/mhs tara/ttein kai\ kuka=n toi=s a)ntiqe/tois, toi=s pe/rasi, toi=s parisw/masi, toi=s a)popla/nois, toi=s mege/qesi noubustikw=s.
Notes:
On
Xenophanes of Colophon, poet and philosopher of the C6 BCE, cf. under
epsilon 2916,
zeta 77,
eta 174,
eta 472,
pi 675, and see generally C.H. Kahn in OCD(4) s.v.
[1] The source is
Diogenes Laertius 8.36-37, where the verb (
prosmarturei=) is explicit (and the elegy quoted directly); cf. also
Greek Anthology 7.120, and
sigma 1264.
[2]
Cratinus (the Younger) fr. 7 Kock (and K.-A.).
Translated by: James L. P. Butrica â on 17 February 2000@09:39:08.
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