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Headword:
Xenophanês
Adler number: xi,46
Translated headword: Xenophanes
Vetting Status: high
Translation: [
Xenophanes bears witness] in an elegy to him [=
Pythagoras] having been different people at different times;[1] and they say that once he was passing while a puppy was being abused and he took pity and said, 'Stop, don't thrash him, since it is the soul of a friend that I recognized talking as I listened.'
Cratinus also mocked him in
Pythagoress [
Pythagorizousa]. And in
Tarentines [
Tarantinoi] [he writes]: 'it's their custom, if they catch some layman entering, to test the power of his words, to rattle and confound him cleverly with opposites, with definitions, with balanced clauses, with fallacies, with sublimities.'[2]
Greek Original:Xenophanês en elegeiai peri tou allote allon auton gegenêsthai: kai pote min stuphelizomenou skulakos parionta phasi g' epoikteirai kai tode phasthai epos: pausai, mêde rhapiz', epeiê philou aneros esti psuchê, tên egnôn phthenxamenên aïôn. eskôpse d' auton kai Kratinos en Puthagorizousêi. kai en Tarantinois: ethos estin autois, ean idiôtên pothen labôsin eiselthonta, diapeirômenon tês tôn logôn rhômês tarattein kai kukan tois antithetois, tois perasi, tois parisômasi, tois apoplanois, tois megethesi noubustikôs.
Notes:
On
Xenophanes of Colophon, poet and philosopher of the C6 BCE, cf. under
epsilon 2916,
zeta 77,
eta 174,
eta 472,
pi 675, and see generally C.H. Kahn in OCD(4) s.v.
[1] The source is
Diogenes Laertius 8.36-37, where the verb (
prosmarturei=) is explicit (and the elegy quoted directly); cf. also
Greek Anthology 7.120, and
sigma 1264.
[2]
Cratinus (the Younger) fr. 7 Kock (and K.-A.).
Keywords: biography; comedy; ethics; philosophy; poetry; rhetoric; zoology
Translated by: James L. P. Butrica â on 17 February 2000@09:39:08.
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