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Headword: Aïssousin
Adler number: alpha,691
Translated headword: they dart
Vetting Status: high
Translation:
[Meaning] they rush,[1] they flit.
Polybius [writes]:[2] "for in Rome Marcus Porcius[3] when he heard of the prowess of Scipio,[4] when another man said to him "what have you heard?" said "he alone has his wits about him, the others dart like shadows."[5]
Greek Original:
Aïssousin: hormôsi, phoitôsi. Polubios: en gar têi Rhômêi Markon Porkion akousanta tas aristeias Skipiônos eipein palin allon pros ekeinon: ti akêkoas; eipein oios pepnutai, toi de skiai aïssousin.
Notes:
cf. alpha 687 and the other cross-references there.
[1] From the scholia to Homer, Iliad 11.553, where the headword occurs (web address 1 below); cf. alpha 4349, eta 147.
[2] Polybius 36.8.7. The syntax of the sentence that follows is confused and may not represent Polybius's original wording. See F.W. Walbank, A Historical Commentary on Polybius, iii (Oxford 1979) 662-3.
[3] Cato the Elder (kappa 1113).
[4] Aemilianus.
[5] A reference to Homer, Odyssey 10.494f.: "to him [Teiresias] alone Persephone granted the privilege of retaining his wits; the others flit like shadows." [web address 2 below] The anecdote is also attested at Diodorus Siculus 32.9a.2; Livy, epitome 49; Plutarch, Moralia 200A; 804f-805A; and cf. kappa 1113.
Associated internet addresses:
Web address 1,
Web address 2
Keywords: biography; definition; dialects, grammar, and etymology; epic; geography; historiography; history; imagery; military affairs
Translated by: Jennifer Benedict on 27 January 2000@21:11:41.
Vetted by:
Gregory Hays (Revised translation; added notes.) on 15 November 2000@21:50:40.
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