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Headword:
Hippoluton
mimêsomai
Adler number: iota,563
Translated headword: I will copy Hippolytus
Vetting Status: high
Translation: [sc. A proverbial phrase] in reference to those professing self-control.
Greek Original:Hippoluton mimêsomai: epi tôn sôphrosunên epangellomenôn.
Notes:
(Entry out of alphabetical order.)
cf.
Diogenianus 5.32 and other paroemiographers.
Hippolytus/Hippolytos, son of Theseus, became a byword for self-control by resisting the amorous advances of his stepmother Phaedra. See further OCD(4) s.v.
Hippolytus(1).
Keywords: daily life; ethics; gender and sexuality; mythology; proverbs; tragedy
Translated by: David Whitehead on 26 August 2001@06:41:29.
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