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*)arka/das
mimou/menoi
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.
*)arka/das mimou/menoi: e)pi\ tw=n e(te/rois ponou/ntwn. oi( ga\r *)arka/des maximw/tatoi *(ellh/nwn geno/menoi i)di/a| me\n ou)de/na e)ni/khsan, e(te/rois de\ summaxou=ntes pollou/s. tau/th| de\ th=| paroimi/a| ke/xrhtai *pla/twn e)n *peisa/ndrw|. dia\ ga\r to\ ta\s kwmw|di/as au)to\s poiw=n a)/llois pare/xein dia\ peni/an, *)arka/das mimei=sqai e)/fh. *)arka\s ou)=n, *)arka/dos, *)arka/di.
Notes:
[1]
Plato Comicus fr. 99 Kock, now 106 K.-A.
[2]
Zenobius 2.59 and other paroemiographers (in the singular).
Translated by: William Hutton on 3 March 2001@00:17:33.
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