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Headword:
Tên
kata
sauton
ela
Adler number: tau,522
Translated headword: keep to your own sphere
Vetting Status: high
Translation: [This] was said from a certain oracle. That is: whatever you are, behave like it and do not strive for better things.
Some assert that this is a Delphic utterance,[1] whereas others [regard it as one of]
Solon's;[2] but some [believe that] Chilon said it to someone seeking his advice, on whether to opt for a wealthy marriage.[3]
Tên kata sauton ela: apo chrêsmou tinos elechthê. toutestin hoios ei, toioutos kai phainou kai meizosi mê sumparekteinou. touto hoi men Puthikon einai phasin apophthegma, hoi de Solônos: enioi de auto Chilôna eipein sumbouleuomenôi tini, ei plousion heloito gamon.
Notes:
Likewise in
Photius (tau263 Theodoridis), taken to come from Pausnias the Atticist (tau27); also in several of the paroemiographers. For the headword phrase itself see
Callimachus,
Epigrams 1.12 & 16 (in
Diogenes Laertius: below).
[1] cf. generally
pi 3127,
pi 3130.
[2] For
Solon see
sigma 776,
sigma 777.
[3] For Chilon see
chi 311. That the dictum belongs in a context of advice about marriage also appears in (e.g.)
Diogenes Laertius 1.80 (=
Greek Anthology 7.89), where
Pittakos (
pi 1659) is counselling 'a stranger from
Atarneus'.
Translated by: David Whitehead on 6 October 2004@08:50:24.
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