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Headword: *tau=ta pro\s a)ndro/s e)sti
Adler number: tau,174
Translated headword: this is [characteristic] of a man
Vetting Status: high
Translation:
"[This is [characteristic] of a man] with intelligence and wits and who has sailed around a lot, to roll himself always to the successful side rather than to stand like a painted image, taking [sc. only] one position. Meaning, of [a man] who accomplishes nothing, inasmuch as what is drawn on the image is immovable. But "having sailed around" [means] having been involved in everything. [It is] like [the expression] in Euripides' Alcmene: "for I never allowed Sthenelos, when he went to the fortunate side [sc. of the ship], to rob [me] of justice."[1]
Greek Original:
*tau=ta pro\s a)ndro/s e)sti nou=n e)/xontos kai\ fre/nas kai\ polla\ peripepleuko/tos, metakulindei=n au)to\n a)ei\ pro\s to\n eu)= pra/ttonta toi=xon ma=llon h)\ gegramme/nhn ei)ko/n' e(sta/nai, labo/nq' e(\n sxh=ma: a)nti\ tou= mhde\n a)nu/onta. dio/ti a)ki/nhton to\ e)pigegramme/non th=| ei)ko/ni. peripepleuko/tos de\ a)nti\ tou= ei)s pa/nta tetrimme/nou. o(/moion tw=| e)n *)alkmh/nh| *eu)ripi/dou: ou) ga/r pot' ei)/wn *sqe/nelon ei)s to\n eu)tuxh= xwrou=nta toi=xon, th=s di/khs a)posterei=n.
Notes:
Aristophanes, Frogs 534-9, with scholia.
[1] Euripides fr. 89. For toichos in this sense of 'side of a ship' see generally LSJ s.v. b.2, delta 799, and cf. tau 1140.
Keywords: art history; comedy; ethics; imagery; mythology; tragedy
Translated by: Catharine Roth on 13 March 2014@01:12:15.
Vetted by:
David Whitehead (internal rearrangement; augmented notes and keywords; cosmetics; raised status) on 13 March 2014@04:27:26.
Catharine Roth (cosmetics) on 19 December 2014@00:50:59.

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