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Headword:
*to\
*mhliako\n
ploi=on
Adler number: tau,752
Translated headword: the Melian boat
Vetting Status: high
Translation: This is said in reference to boats that leak too much. [It comes] from a historical episode: for
Aristotle says[1] that when Hippotes was being sent out to [sc. found] a colony, he called down curses on those who had refused to sail with him. Because their excuses for staying behind were in some cases that their womenfolk were ill and in others that their boats were leaking, his curse on them was that they would never have watertight boats and always be ruled by their women.
*to\ *mhliako\n ploi=on: e)pi\ tw=n a)/gan r(eo/ntwn ploi/wn ei)/rhtai tou=to. a)po\ i(stori/as tino/s: fhsi\ ga\r *)aristote/lhs *(ippo/thn ei)s a)poiki/an stello/menon, toi=s mh\ boulhqei=sin au)tw=| sumplei=n katara/sasqai. e)peidh\ ga\r profasizo/menoi, oi( me\n ta\s gunai=kas au)toi=s a)rrwstei=n, oi( de\ ta\ ploi=a r(ei=n, kate/menon, kathra/sato, mh/te ploi=a stegana\ au)toi=s gene/sqai pote\ kai\ u(po\ tw=n gunaikw=n kratei=sqai a)ei/.
Notes:
Already at
mu 923 (as "Melian boat"); but the present entry is fuller.
[1]
Aristotle fr.554 Rose, from the
Constitution of the Melians. The version of the proverb in
Diogenianus 8.31 adds what is omitted here, that the colonizing community was
Sparta. (For
Melos as a Spartan colony cf.
Herodotus 8.48 [web address 1],
Thucydides 5.84.2 [web address 2], etc.) Conversely, Diog. does not confirm the odd-looking name "Hippotes"; perhaps Hippo[kra]tes or Hippot[el]es?
Web address 1,
Web address 2
Keywords: aetiology; biography; daily life; gender and sexuality; geography; historiography; history; medicine; military affairs; philosophy; proverbs; religion; science and technology; women
Translated by: David Whitehead on 8 July 2001@09:50:59.
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