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Headword: Melêtos
Adler number: mu,497
Translated headword: Meletos, Meletus
Vetting Status: high
Translation:
This man was in love with a young man in Athens who was one of the well-born and wealthy, and also a youth who was outstanding in his lineage and at an irresistible age. And the lover's name was Meletus and the pretty boy's name was Timagoras, as they say. This boy was impervious and pitiless and set for him many laborious [tasks] which held the utmost danger and likewise drove him to destruction. His tasks were to take good hunting bitches from a foreign land and the well-bred and spirited horse of one of his enemies and someone else's lovely chlamys and other such things. And finally he ordered him to bring him someone's cherished and wonderful birds of a domesticated breed. And when that possessed lover did this and gave the lovely boy as a great and valuable possession the [birds] he had asked for before, he [Timagoras], being cruel even to such an extent, rejected the gift. Then Meletus, inflamed by love and maddened and vexed by his dishonor at these things and fed up with the bootless unending troubles, leapt with as much foot-power as he had and sprang up onto the acropolis and threw himself down upon the rocks. Vengeful justice indeed did not allow the arrogant and disdainful boy to gloat over the death of Meletus. So he took up the birds and put them in his arms and then running in the tracks of that man, as if dragged by force, he yielded to misfortune and threw himself after Meletus, requiting him with a late and unfortunate love. And a statue of the tragedy stood in that place: a boy, lovely and naked carrying two well-bred roosters in his arms and throwing himself headlong.
Greek Original:
Melêtos: houtos erai neaniou Athênêsi tôn eu gegonotôn kai plousiôn, meirakiou kai ekeinou to genos diaprepous kai tên hôran amachou. kai tôi men erastêi Melêtos onoma ên, tôi kalôi de Timagoras, hôs phasin. ên de atenktos te kai ameiliktos hode ho pais, kai hoi polla prosetatte kai epipona kai kindunôn echomena tôn eschatôn kai homou ta tôi olethrôi elaunonta. kai ên ta pragmata kunas te agathas kai thêratikas ek tês allodapês agein kai hippon au tôn polemiôn apagagein hotou dê gennaion te kai thumikon, kai allou chlamuda hôraian, kai toiauta hetera. kai teleutôn ornithas hoi prosetaxe komisai hotou dê trophimous kai oiketas genos thaumastous. epei de kai touto katepraxato ho entheos philos ekeinos kai edôreito ge tôi kalôi to mega timion ktêma tous proeirêmenous, ho de ateramôn ôn kai es tosouton apeôsato ara to dôron. ho toinun Melêtos phlegomenos tôi erôti kai oistroumenos kai epi toutois aschallôn têi atimiai kai apaudêsas epi tois anênutois te mochthois hama kai apeirois, hêi podôn eichen anethore te es tên akropolin kai heauton eôse kata tôn petrôn. ou mên hê timôros dikê ton hubristên paida kai huperoptên eiasen epenchanein tôi tou Melêtou thanatôi. tous ornithas goun analabôn kai tais ankalais entheis, eita mentoi kat' ichnia ta ekeinou theôn, hôsper oun helkomenos biai, heauton sun tôi dustuchei chôrôn epi tôi Melêtôi erripse pherôn, bradun kai dustuchê ton erôta anterastheis touton. kai hestêken eidôlon tou pathous kata ton topon pais hôraios kai gumnos alektruonas b# mala eugeneis pherôn en tais ankalais kai ôthôn heauton epi kephalên.
Note:
Aelian fr. 72 Domingo-Forasté (69 Hercher); see also alpha 4301, alpha 4329, alpha 4343, epsilon 2027, and kappa 251.
Keywords: art history; biography; clothing; economics; ethics; gender and sexuality; zoology
Translated by: Jennifer Benedict on 17 June 2009@02:16:58.
Vetted by:
David Whitehead (more keywords; tweaks) on 17 June 2009@03:25:16.
Catharine Roth (another keyword) on 17 June 2009@11:12:34.
William Hutton (tweaked tr.) on 17 June 2009@12:03:51.
Catharine Roth (updated reference) on 24 March 2012@20:25:50.
David Whitehead on 15 May 2013@04:49:46.
Catharine Roth (tweaked translation) on 4 August 2020@01:42:45.

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