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Headword: Arkadas mimoumenoi
Adler number: alpha,3946
Translated headword: imitating Arkadians, imitating Arcadians
Vetting Status: high
Translation:
[sc. A proverb] in reference to those who labor for others. For the Arcadians, though they had become the most warlike of Greeks, conquered no one on their own but many when fighting with others. Plato used this proverb in Peisandros:[1] for since poverty compelled him to provide for others comedies he had composed himself, he said that he was "imitating Arcadians".[2]
So [the noun is declined] *)arka/s, *)arka/dos, *)arka/di.
Greek Original:
Arkadas mimoumenoi: epi tôn heterois ponountôn. hoi gar Arkades machimôtatoi Hellênôn genomenoi idiai men oudena enikêsan, heterois de summachountes pollous. tautêi de têi paroimiai kechrêtai Platôn en Peisandrôi. dia gar to tas kômôidias autos poiôn allois parechein dia penian, Arkadas mimeisthai ephê. Arkas oun, Arkados, Arkadi.
Notes:
[1] Plato Comicus fr. 99 Kock, now 106 K.-A.
[2] Zenobius 2.59 and other paroemiographers (in the singular).
Keywords: biography; comedy; daily life; dialects, grammar, and etymology; economics; geography; history; military affairs
Translated by: William Hutton on 3 March 2001@00:17:33.
Vetted by:
David Whitehead (added notes; cosmetics) on 3 March 2001@08:53:06.
David Whitehead (added note and keyword) on 25 August 2002@05:05:28.
David Whitehead (more keywords; tweaking) on 12 April 2012@06:52:20.
David Whitehead (updated a ref) on 1 January 2015@08:55:02.
Catharine Roth (tweaked betacode) on 1 November 2015@01:16:46.

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