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Headword: *ou)k e)to\s a)f' h(mw=n ei)sin ai( tragw|di/ai: ou)de\n ga/r ei)si plh\n *poseidw=n kai\ ska/fh
Adler number: omicron,890
Translated headword: no wonder tragedies [come] from us for they are nothing but Poseidon and a boat
Vetting Status: high
Translation:
A proverbial phrase in reference to those involved in the same thing but content to think of nothing else. The sense [is]: we [sc. women] are nothing but sex and childbirth. For Poseidon copulated with Tyro and produced Neleus and Pelias.
Greek Original:
*ou)k e)to\s a)f' h(mw=n ei)sin ai( tragw|di/ai: ou)de\n ga/r ei)si plh\n *poseidw=n kai\ ska/fh: paroimi/a e)pi\ tw=n e)gkulindoume/nwn tw=| au)tw=| pra/gmati, a)/llo de\ mhde\n noei=n a)nexome/nwn. o( de\ nou=s: ou)de\n e)sme\n ei) mh\ sunousia/zein kai\ ti/ktein. o( ga\r *poseidw=n e)mi/gh th=| *turoi= kai\ e)ge/nnhse *nhle/a kai\ *peli/an.
Notes:
Aristophanes, Lysistrata 138-9 (with 'we' for the Suda's 'they'), with scholion. See web address 1.
In the myth in question, the subject of Sophocles' lost Tyro (and already in Homer, Odyssey 11.235-259), Poseidon seduced Tyro by taking on the form of her lover, the river Enipeus; their twin sons were then exposed in a boat.
For 'no wonder', see already omicron 888, omicron 889.
Associated internet address:
Web address 1
Keywords: children; comedy; definition; gender and sexuality; mythology; proverbs; tragedy; women
Translated by: David Whitehead on 28 May 2010@09:03:10.
Vetted by:
Catharine Roth (added link, set status) on 29 May 2010@20:20:48.
David Whitehead (augmented note; more keywords) on 30 May 2010@04:41:59.
David Whitehead on 1 August 2013@05:36:22.
Catharine Roth (coding) on 10 August 2013@19:04:14.
Catharine Roth (another cross-reference) on 27 February 2021@23:38:04.

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