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Headword:
Ta
Samiôn
hupopteueis
Adler number: tau,142
Translated headword: you’re suspecting what happened to the Samians
Vetting Status: high
Translation: This proverb[1] is spoken about those fearing certain irreparable betrayals of evils.[2] It came across from the atrocities that were wrought by the Athenians upon the Samians: for when they captured them, the Athenians killed some, and tattooed the others with the so-called Samê, which is a kind of Samian calamity;[3] in return for which the Samians, too, tattooed those of the Athenians that were subsequently captured.
Greek Original:Ta Samiôn hupopteueis: paroimia hautê legetai epi tôn dediotôn tinas anêkestous kakôn prodosias. parêlthe de apo tôn genomenôn hupo Athênaiôn eis Samious aikismôn: helontes gar autous hoi Athênaioi tous men apekteinan, tous de estixan têi kaloumenêi samêi, hê estin eidos pathous Samiakou: anth' hôn kai hoi Samioi tous halontas meta tauta Athênaiôn estixan.
Notes:
Likewise in
Photius sigma74 Theodoridis, taken to come from
Pausanias the Atticist (tau15).
[1]
Apostolius 16.14 and other paroemiographers.
[2] Referring to the same events,
sigma 77 has a more intelligible phrase: calamities of evils.
[3] The last point is repeated from
sigma 75. (But these Samians were tattooed with the Athenian owl: see note 7 at
sigma 77.)
Keywords: aetiology; daily life; ethics; geography; history; military affairs; proverbs
Translated by: D. Graham J. Shipley on 10 July 2003@02:56:52.
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