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Headword:
Ap'
echthrôn
polla
manthanousin
hoi
sophoi
Adler number: alpha,3104
Translated headword: from enemies the wise learn many things
Vetting Status: high
Translation: "[From enemies the wise learn many things.] For caution saves everything. You would not learn this, then, from a friend, but the enemy himself compels [sc. you to know it]".[1] And
Menander [writes]: "might we not be saved whence we are destroyed?"[2] From our enemies. For when we fear our enemies we are helped by them; and from our enemies we learn about watchfulness and foresight. "After all, cities learned from men [sc. who were] enemies, not friends, to build high walls and to possess long ships. This lesson saves children, home[s], goods".[3]
Greek Original:Ap' echthrôn polla manthanousin hoi sophoi. hê gar eulabeia sôizei panta. para men oun philou ou mathois an touth', ho d' echthros autos exênankase. kai Menandros: ouch hothen apolomestha sôtheiêmen an; para tôn echthrôn. phoboumenoi gar tous echthrous ôpheloumetha par' autôn: ek te tôn echthrôn polla chrêsima didaskometha pros phulakên kai pronoian. autich' hai poleis par' andrôn emathon echthrôn kou philôn ekponein th' hupsêla teichê naus te kektêsthai makras. to de mathêma touto sôizei paidas, oikon, chrêmata.
Notes:
The headword phrase begins, here, a six-line extract from
Aristophanes, interrupted by a shorter one from
Menander; see the notes below. Dunbar 279-282 suggests that the
Aristophanes passage parodies sophistic argument.
[1]
Aristophanes,
Birds 375-377 (web address 1 below), loosely quoted.
[2]
Menander fr. 840 Kock, 767 Koerte, now 644 K.-A.
[3]
Aristophanes,
Birds 378-380 (web address 1).
Reference:
Aristophanes, Birds, edited with introduction and commentary by Nan Dunbar (Oxford 1995)
Associated internet address:
Web address 1
Keywords: children; comedy; daily life; ethics; military affairs; proverbs; science and technology
Translated by: Jennifer Benedict on 15 January 2001@06:42:13.
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