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Headword:
*qumo\s
e(ptabo/eios
Adler number: theta,574
Translated headword: seven-oxhide temper
Vetting Status: high
Translation: [Meaning] a big one. A metaphor from the shield of Ajax.[1]
Kreon in
Oedipus [says]: "for there is no other old age for the temper except in death. No pain get its grips on the dead."[2] That is, it is not possible to control one's temper when one is a human being. The rawness of the temper does not grow old, except when a human departs from life; for it is impossible, when one is a human being, not to indulge one's temper. This is also spoken as a proverb, that the temper grows old last. This is said because older people get a more robust temper the older they get.[3] Also/even
Alkaios mentions this as a common saying.[4]
*qumo\s e(ptabo/eios: o( me/gas. a)po\ metafora=s th=s a)spi/dos tou= *ai)/antos. *kre/wn *oi)di/podi: qumou= ga\r ou)de/n e)stin a)/llo gh=ras plh\n qanei=n. qano/ntwn d' ou)de\n a)/lgos a(/ptetai. oi(=on ou)k e)/sti qumou= krath=sai a)/nqrwpon o)/nta. ou) kataghra/skei to\ w)mo\n tou= qumou=, ei) mh\ e)ce/lqoi tou= bi/ou o( a)/nqrwpos: a)du/naton ga/r e)stin o)/nta a)/nqrwpon mh\ qumw=| xrh/sasqai. tou=to kai\ paroimiakw=s le/getai, o(/ti o( qumo\s e)/sxaton ghra/skei. le/getai de\ dia\ tou\s presbute/rous: o(/son ghra/skousi, to\n qumo\n e)rrwmene/steron e)/xousi. kai\ *)alkai=os w(s legome/nou kata\ to\ koino\n au)tou= mimnh/sketai.
Notes:
The headword phrase is the nominative singular version of what appears in the accusative plural at
Aristophanes,
Frogs 1016 (web address 1).
[1] (From the
scholia to this line.) The giant shield of Ajax was constructed with seven layers of oxhide; cf.
Homer,
Iliad 7.220 (web address 2), and
epsilon 2866.
[2]
Sophocles,
Oedipus at Colonus 954-5 (web address 3); comments from the
scholia follow.
[3] So in some of the paroemiographers, e.g.
Apostolius 8.93.
[4]
Alcaeus fr. 117 Bergk.
Web address 1,
Web address 2,
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Translated by: William Hutton on 18 February 2008@15:11:54.
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