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Headword:
Tauta
soi
kai
Puthia
kai
Dêlia
Adler number: tau,175
Translated headword: for you this [is] both Pythia and Delia
Vetting Status: high
Translation: [sc. A proverb] in reference to those taking their final actions.[1] For when Polykrates, the tyrant of
Samos, had captured Rheneia and dedicated it to Apollo, he set up a most beautiful festival in
Delos.[2] Then he sent to
Delphi and asked what he must call the festival, Delia or Pythia. But the oracle said: "for you [this is] both Pythia and Delia"; meaning that he would die immediately.[3]
Tauta soi kai Puthia kai Dêlia: epi tôn ta teleutaia poiountôn. Polukratês gar ho Samou turannos Rhênian helôn kai anatheis autên tôi Apollôni kai en Dêlôi theis agôna kalliston êrôta pempsas eis Delphous, pôs dei kalein ton agôna, Dêlia ê Puthia. ho de chrêsmos eipe: tauta soi kai Puthia kai Dêlia: sêmainôn, hoti eutheôs apothaneitai.
Notes:
[1] The proverb, which is in the iambic metre (with
kai\ *dh/lia beginning a new line) is attributed to the comic poet
Menander (fr. 147 Kock = 134 Koerte-Thierfelder = 84 Kassel-Austin). In the paroemiographers:
Zenobius 6.15;
Apostolius 15.9; Arsenius 16.17a.
[2] (
Delos lies between the larger islands of Rheneia [
rho 134] and
Mykonos.) For this episode cf.
Thucydides 1.13.6 and 3.104.2.
[3] cf.
pi 3128, and see generally J. Fontenrose,
The Delphic Oracle: its responses and operations (Berkeley 1978) 307 Q116.
Translated by: D. Graham J. Shipley on 11 July 2003@01:29:40.
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