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Headword:
Amuris
mainetai
Adler number: alpha,1684
Translated headword: Amyris is mad
Vetting Status: high
Translation: The proverb refers to the man of sound mind.
For a sacred envoy [
theoros] had been sent to
Delphi by [the] Sybarites concerning their good fortune, and the god[1] had prophesied that there would be destruction on [the] Sybarites whenever they began to honor men more than gods. [Amyris], seeing a slave being flogged in front of the shrine and fleeing to the shrine for refuge and then not being set free -- being freed only later, once he had sought refuge at the tomb of the father of the flogger -- understood the oracle, turned his property into cash, and left for the Peloponnese. This, then, Amyris did with good reason, but the Sybarites considered this madness. For a long time he was admired for his pretended insanity.
Amuris mainetai: epi tou phrenêrous legetai hê paroimia. theôros gar hupo Subaritôn pemphtheis eis Delphous peri eudaimonias kai tou theou chrêsantos apôleian Subaritôn esesthai tote, hotan anthrôpous theôn protimêsôsi, theasamenos doulon pros hierôi mastigoumenon kai prosphugonta tôi hierôi kai mê apoluomenon, husteron de eis to tou mastigountos patros mnêma kataphugonta apoluthênai, suneis to logion, exargurisamenos ta idia, apêiren eis Peloponnêson. ho oun logismôi pepoiêken Amuris, tout' eis manian Subaritai metestrepsan. ho de tôi chronôi dia tên prospoiêton manian ethaumasthê.
Notes:
After the initial comment, the entry parallels the one in
Photius,
Lexicon alpha1275. See also
Athenaeus,
Deipnosophists 12.520A-B (12.18 Kaibel).
The date must be before 510 BCE, when Sybaris (in S Italy) was destroyed. On the episode see generally J. Fontenrose,
The Delphic Oracle: its responses and operations with a catalogue of responses (Berkeley & Los Angeles 1978) Q122.
cf.
theta 42 (where the name is Thamyris) and
sigma 1272.
[1] Apollo.
Translated by: Jennifer Benedict on 15 October 2000@11:48:56.
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