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Headword:
Chelônê
muiôn
Adler number: chi,191
Translated headword: a tortoise [uncaring] of flies
Vetting Status: high
Translation: [sc. a proverbial phrase] in reference to those who think little of someone/something.[1]
Also [sc. attested is] 'to a tortoise'. "You think your frankness is 'worth four obols', as the saying goes. You do not know that Thersites was also outspoken among the Greeks; but the frankness of Thersites mattered less to Agamemnon than flies to a tortoise, as the proverb has it."[2]
When a tortoise being carried by an eagle was thrown at the head of
Aeschylus the Athenian, he died, being 58 years old.[3]
Chelônê muiôn: epi tôn aphrontistountôn tinos. kai Chelônêi: tên parrêsian tên sên oiei tettarôn einai obolôn, to legomenon. ouk oistha, hoti kai Thersitês en tois Hellêsin eparrêsiazeto: tôi de Agamemnoni tês Thersitou parrêsias elatton emelen ê chelônêi muiôn, to tês paroimias. hoti chelônês epirripheisês Aischulôi tôi Athênaiôi hupo aetou pherontos kata tês kephalês, apôleto, etôn nê# genomenos.
Notes:
[1] cf.
Appendix Proverbiorum 5.27 (etc.)
[2] Julian,
Epistles 82.106; cf.
tau 368. (Thersites features in
Homer,
Iliad 2, as an ugly Greek soldier who speaks out against Agamemnon and is quickly silenced with a blow from Odysseus. See
theta 257.)
[3] An apocryphal tale about the death of
Aeschylus; from
alphaiota 357.
Translated by: Jennifer Benedict on 19 March 2008@12:01:50.
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