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Headword:
*xrh/mata,
xrh/mat'
a)nh/r
Adler number: chi,478
Translated headword: money money (is the) man
Vetting Status: high
Translation: This is proverbial, like the sayings of the Seven Sages.[1]
Pindar and
Alcaeus mention it. Similar to it [are] "the office reveals the man",[2] "steer your own course"[3] and "know thyself".[4]
Alcaeus says it is said by
Aristodemus the Spartan, but
Pindar by a certain man named Argeios, referring [to
Aristodemus] like this.[5]
Aristodemus is counted among the [Seven] Sages by some people.
Greek Original:*xrh/mata, xrh/mat' a)nh/r: au(/th a)pofqegmatikh/ e)stin, w(s ta\ paragge/lmata tw=n e(pta\ sofw=n. me/mnhtai au)th=s *pi/ndaros kai\ *)alkai=os. o(moi/a th=| w(s kai\ a)rxh\ a)/ndra dei/knusi, kai\ th\n kata\ sauto\n e)/la, kai\ to\ gnw=qi sauto/n. lexqh=nai de\ au)th\n *)alkai=os me\n u(po\ *)aristodh/mou tou= *spartia/tou fhsi/, *pi/ndaros de\ u(po/ tinos *)argei/ou to\ o)/noma, ou(/tws le/gwn. o( d' *)aristo/dhmos e)gkatariqmei=tai toi=s sofoi=s u(po/ tinwn.
Notes:
See already
chi 477 and the notes there.
[1] The Seven Sages are usually
Thales of Miletus,
Bias of
Priene,
Cleobulus of
Lindos,
Pittacus of Mitylene,
Solon of
Athens, Chilon of
Sparta and Periander of Corinth. See generally OCD(4) s.v.
[2] This proverb first appears in
Demosthenes,
Exordia 48.2.2 (web address 1). See also
alpha 4096, where it is said to be attributed to
Solon, though
Aristotle and
Theophrastus give it to
Bias.
[3] This proverb first appears at
Callimachus,
Epigrams 1.12 Pfeiffer, where a man, under the prompting of
Pittacus, overhears boys at play saying this. See also
tau 522, where attributions of this proverb to the Delphic oracle,
Solon, and Chilon are reported.
[4] See also
gamma 333 and
gamma 334, which respectively attribute this proverb to Chilon and the Delphic oracle.
[5]
Alcaeus fr.360 Lobel-Page;
Pindar,
Isthmian 2.17 (web address 2).
Associated internet addresses:
Web address 1,
Web address 2
Keywords: biography; children; daily life; economics; ethics; geography; poetry; proverbs; rhetoric
Translated by: Andrew Morrison on 7 April 2003@12:08:11.
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