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Headword: Aiguptia klêmatis
Adler number: alphaiota,76
Translated headword: Egyptian vine-branch.
Vetting Status: high
Translation:
[sc. A proverbial phrase] in reference to lean and fairly tall men; such a man was Zeno of Citium. It is said that he consulted the oracle to learn how he might live the best life, and that the god's answer was that he should go skin-to-skin with the dead. Hence, understanding the implication of this, he read the works of the ancients.[1]
Greek Original:
Aiguptia klêmatis: epi tôn ischnôn kai hupomêkôn: hopoios ên Zênôn ho Kitieus. hon phasi chrêstêriazomenon pôs arista biôsetai, apokrinasthai ton theon, ei sunchrôtizoito tois nekrois. hothen xunenta ta tôn archaiôn anaginôskein.
Notes:
This material is drawn from the opening chapters of Diogenes Laertius' Life of Zeno: briefly 7.1 (on the present headword phrase, for which 'Chrysippus [chi 568] in the first book of his Proverbs' is cited) and more fully 7.2.
[1] cf. sigma 1313.
Keywords: biography; botany; definition; dialects, grammar, and etymology; geography; medicine; philosophy; proverbs; religion
Translated by: Phiroze Vasunia on 20 February 2000@21:52:07.
Vetted by:
David Whitehead (added note and keywords; cosmetics) on 26 March 2001@05:42:19.
David Whitehead (more keywords; tweaking) on 11 May 2012@06:47:45.
David Whitehead (expanded note) on 24 August 2015@08:21:07.
David Whitehead (my typo) on 23 November 2015@03:26:40.
David Whitehead (modified tr) on 1 April 2023@06:14:22.

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