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Headword:
Phôta
Adler number: phi,677
Translated headword: human, mortal
Vetting Status: high
Translation: [Meaning a] man.[1]
For not only does "great risk not get hold of a feeble man", as
Pindar says,[2] but the great man undertakes no small contest; rather, where other exiles run off because of unmanliness, here [the great man] taking risks ventures in, "where men's valour is discerned",[3] according to the Poet.[4]
Phôta: andra. ou gar monon ho megas kindunos analkin ou phôta lambanei, hôs legei Pindaros, alla kai ho megas anêr oudena mikron agôna prosietai: all' hopou phugades alloi di' anandrian apodidraskousin, entautha katabainei paraballomenos, enth' aretê diaeidetai andrôn, kata ton Poiêtên.
Notes:
[1] From the
scholia to
Homer,
Iliad 2.164, where the headword (accusative case) occurs. Likewise or similarly in other lexica. See also
phi 671.
[2]
Pindar,
Olympian 1.81. [web address 1]
[3] A slight misquotation of
Homer,
Iliad13.277,
e)/nqa ma/list' a)reth\ diaei/detai a)ndrw=n, "where men's valour is best discerned". [web address 2]
[4] (
Homer.) This whole paragraph = fr. 65 Zintzen of
Damascius,
Life of Isidore. See also
alpha 1941, where this fragment is also quoted, as far as "ventures in"; also
delta 552,
kappa 474.
Web address 1,
Web address 2
Keywords: biography; daily life; definition; dialects, grammar, and etymology; epic; poetry; proverbs
Translated by: Andrew Morrison on 3 April 2003@09:22:50.
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