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Headword:
Nêpios
Adler number: nu,325
Translated headword: fool, foolish
Vetting Status: high
Translation: [Meaning] witless, mindless.[1]
"Philip of Macedon deprived many of life and later included their sons as well, quoting this verse, 'He is a fool who when he has killed the father spares the sons'."[2]
"Fools! They do not know how much more the half is than the whole."[3] For there are times when through desiring a greater share one loses even what he has.
Greek Original:Nêpios: aphrôn, anoêtos. Philippos ho Makedôn pollous anelôn husteron ephthenxato touton ton stichon: nêpios, hos patera kteinas huious kataleipei. Nêpioi, oud' isasin hosôi pleon hêmisu pantos. esth' hote gar pleionôn epithumôn tis apoballei kai ha echei.
Notes:
cf. generally
nu 322,
nu 324
[1] These are the glosses of the
scholia on
Homer,
Iliad 2.38, where the headword adjective appears; likewise or similarly in other lexica.
[2]
Polybius 23.10.10 (23.10.15 in the Loeb edition), on Philip V of Macedon. See
phi 355 and n.2 there.
[3] This paradox (later taken up by some of the paroemiographers) is from Hesiod,
Works and Days 40; cf.
eta 350,
omicron 704.
Translated by: Tony Natoli on 30 March 2000@17:41:31.
Vetted by:David Whitehead (modified headword; added note and keywords; cosmetics) on 24 May 2001@04:03:10.
David Whitehead (added x-refs and keyword; restorative cosmetics) on 20 December 2002@03:47:18.
David Whitehead (augmented notes and keywords; tweaking) on 9 June 2013@05:15:45.
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