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Headword:
*zw=men
ga\r
ou)x
w(s
qe/lomen,
a)ll'
w(s
duna/meqa
Adler number: zeta,133
Translated headword: for we live not as we wish but as we can
Vetting Status: high
Translation: [sc. A proverbial saying] in reference to those who live not according to their choice.
Plato used it in
Hippias[1].
*zw=men ga\r ou)x w(s qe/lomen, a)ll' w(s duna/meqa: e)pi\ tw=n mh\ kata\ proai/resin zw/ntwn. ke/xrhtai *pla/twn e)n *(ippi/a|.
Note:
[1]
Plato,
Hippias Major 301C (web address 1).
Plato expresses the proverb as follows: "
Hippias, this is how human affairs stand: it's not what one wants, but what one is able to do, as people so often say, speaking proverbially." The proverb is also preserved by the paroemiographers (e.g.
Zenobius 4.16); and see generally Tosi (cited under
alpha 378) no.1544.
Web address 1
Keywords: daily life; ethics; philosophy; proverbs
Translated by: A. G. Kozak on 11 October 1999@16:10:00.
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