Aelian [writes]: "whom, rather than anyone/anything, I might prefer to associate even with all tyrants and with those who have come forth greatly in wealth."[1]
And elsewhere
Aelian [writes]: "I might value my whole life [as worth] three days, if I did not have those who care for me."[2] Meaning I might exchange.
Timêsaimên: Ailianos: hon an egô timêsaimên pro pantos sungenesthai kai pasi turannois kai tois epi mega ploutou proêkousi. kai authis Ailianos: timêsaimên ton bion panta triêmerou, ei mê echoimi tous emous kêdemonas. anti tou allaxoimi.
[1]
Aelian fr. 180 Domingo-Forasté (177 Hercher), quoted more briefly at
pi 2417. As Adler notes,
Aelian is alluding to Croesus' words in
Herodotus 1.86.4 (
to\n a)\n e)gw\ pa=si tura/nnoisi proeti/mhsa mega/lwn xrhma/twn e)s lo/gous e)lqei=n).
[2]
Aelian fr. 181 Domingo-Forasté (178 Hercher). Adler notes that Kuster conjectured, and ms F reads,
trihme/rou. Mss AGVM read
trihmoi/rou which seems meaningless. Kühn suggested
trithmori/ou "a third part" (sc. of one's life). Bernhardy would regularize the grammar by adding
a)\n and changing the future optative
a)lla/coimi to the aorist optative
a)lla/caimi (which is the reading of ms V).
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