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Headword: Mê ti
Adler number: mu,994
Translated headword: not at all
Vetting Status: high
Translation:
[Meaning] in no manner.[1]
"In no way did Isidore obey the injunction; instead Ibycus' verse came against him: 'not at all to exchange honour among men by failing with the gods.'"[2]
Greek Original:
Mê ti: mêdamôs. oupô de epeitheto tôi prostagmati ho Isidôros, alla to tou Ibukou epos auton epêiei, mê ti para theois amplakôn timan pros anthrôpôn ameipsêi.
Notes:
[1] Same glossing in other lexica (see the references at Photius mu417 Theodoridis) and in a scholion on Homer, Iliad 4.42, where the headword phrase occurs (web address 1).
[2] Damascius, Life of Isidore fr. 253 Zintzen (150 Asmus), quoted already at alpha 1654 and iota 78. The Ibycus quotation is an approximation of his fr. 29 Page: "I fear that, failing with the gods, I will exchange honour among men" (quoted by Plato, Phaedrus 242C-D: web address 2).
Associated internet addresses:
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Web address 2
Keywords: biography; definition; epic; ethics; philosophy; poetry; religion
Translated by: Catharine Roth on 14 April 2008@11:18:23.
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