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Headword: Siôpê
Adler number: sigma,469
Translated headword: silence
Vetting Status: high
Translation:
[There is] a proverb:[1] "and I will be more silent even than the initiated Pythagoreans." In reference to those who are too silent. Inasmuch as the associates of Pythagoras had a precept to spend a period of five years practicing silence.[2]
Greek Original:
Siôpê: paroimia: kai siôpêloteros esomai kai tôn Puthagorai telesthentôn. epi tôn panu sigôntôn: paroson hoi Puthagorou phoitêtai parangelma eichon sigên askein pentaetê chronon.
Notes:
[1] The headword is unglossed; the word "proverb" is lacking in manuscripts AFV.
[2] Julian, Orations 4(8).251c. See already at pi 3124 (end).
Keywords: daily life; dialects, grammar, and etymology; ethics; philosophy; proverbs; religion; rhetoric
Translated by: Catharine Roth on 16 March 2010@14:59:09.
Vetted by:
David Whitehead (supplemented tr; more keywords; tweaks and cosmetics) on 17 March 2010@04:32:34.
David Whitehead on 24 December 2013@08:55:55.
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