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Headword:
Nikêtês
Adler number: nu,387
Translated headword: Nicetes, Niketes
Vetting Status: high
Translation: Proper name.
Heraclides of
Lycia, the sophist, said: "Nicetes purified", unaware that he was fitting the spoils of the Pygmies onto a colossus.
This proverb perhaps refers to people who try to bring together things that are incompatible, and especially when we compare tiny things to huge ones.
Greek Original:Nikêtês: onoma kurion. hoti Hêrakleidês ho Lukios sophistês ephê: Nikêtês ho kekatharmenos agnoêsas akrothinia pugmaiôn kolossôi epharmozein. paroimia touto isôs epi tôn asumbata sumbibazontôn, kai malisth' hotan smikrotata megistois paraballômen.
Notes:
After the opening gloss this material derives from
alpha 1002 (cf.
eta 462). The reference is to
Heraclides' revision of works by the sophist Nicetes (RE Nicetes(6); PIR2 Nu83). See also
Philostratus,
Lives of the Sophists 1.19 (512).
For the name, see also
nu 385,
nu 386.
Keywords: biography; daily life; definition; geography; imagery; proverbs
Translated by: Malcolm Heath on 20 June 2003@01:56:12.
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