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Headword:
Archias
Adler number: alpha,4104
Translated headword: Archias
Vetting Status: high
Translation: [
Archias], a Syracusan,[1] and Myskellos, an Achaian,[2] had come to
Delphi[3] at the same time and they were asking to receive a good prophecy for the cities they were about to colonize, [about] what the life was that was fated to themselves and to their cities.[4] And the Pythia[5] said, "Since you have a people that inhabits the country and the city, you came to ask Phoebus [Apollo] what land to go to. But come now, tell me which boon you prefer, to have a wealth of possessions or most agreeable health?" Now when they heard this,
Archias, since he was a lover of wealth, chooses the amplification of wealth, nor was he beguiled of his hope; at any rate Syracuse became a very rich city, in accordance with the Pythian oracle.[6] Myskellos, though, chooses for himself and his city to have good health, and he got what he asked for. As proof, at any rate, of the good health in Croton,[7] the inhabitants are of strong body, and the city became the mother of many fine athletes. Wealth and health are both gifts, then. The stout choice and healthy thought chooses the better things, and these men are evidence, the one that was wiser, and the other that was not altogether a gentleman. For, of the good things of mankind, one is greater and one is second, as
Plato says[8] and the song goes.[9]
Greek Original:Archias, Surakousios kai Muskellos Achaios hêkon es Delphous en tôi autôi tou chronou kai êitoun ara huper hôn emellon oikizein poleôn phêmên agathên labein, ton epinêsthenta autois te kai tais polesin autôn bion. legei de hê Puthia: chôras kai poleôs oikêtora laon echontes êlthet' erêsomenoi Phoibon, tina gaian hikêsthe: all' age dê phrazesth' agathôn poteron ken heloisthe, plouton echein kteanôn ê terpnotatên hugieian. epei toinun tauta êkousatên, Archias ôn philochrêmatos ploutou peribolên haireitai, oude epseusthê tês elpidos: pamplousios goun Surakousa hê polis kata tên phêmên tên Puthiada egeneto. Muskellos de haireitai autos te hugiainein kai hê polis: kai apônêto hôn êitêse. deigma goun tês en Krotôni hugieias rhômaleoi te eisin hoi oikêtores, kai athlêtôn hê polis pollôn kai agathôn mêtêr egeneto. ploutos ara kai hugieia dôra amphô eston: hairesis de errômenê kai dianoia hugiainousa haireitai ta beltiô, kai apephênan kai houtoi, ho men sunetôteros ôn, ho de ou pantêi eleutherios. tôn gar oun agathôn tôn anthrôpikôn to men presbuteron, to de deuteron, hôs kai Platôn phêsi kai to skolion aidei.
Notes:
Source:
Aelian fr. 346 Hercher (343 Domingo-Forasté); cf.
Strabo 6.2.4; the
scholia to
Aristophanes,
Knights 1091; and
mu 1473.
[1] More exactly, a Corinthian who became the oikist (founder) of Syracuse, c.734 BCE.
[2] Achaia was a large region of the N. Peloponnese, west of Corinth. Myskellos actually came from the city of Rhypes.
[3] See generally
delta 210.
[4] cf.
epsilon 2490.
[5] See generally
pi 3127.
[6] cf.
sigma 1659.
[7] cf.
kappa 2482.
[8]
Plato,
Gorgias 451E (web address 1 below): good health is best, beauty second, riches -- fairly acquired -- third.
[9] cf.
sigma 644.
Reference:
J. Fontenrose, The Delphic Oracle: its Responses and Operations, with a Catalogue of Responses (Berkeley & Los Angeles 1978) 279, Q31; see also QQ28, 29, 30, 36.
Associated internet address:
Web address 1
Keywords: aetiology; athletics; biography; economics; ethics; geography; medicine; meter and music; mythology; philosophy; religion
Translated by: John Henkel on 1 May 2002@16:33:37.
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