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Headword:
*ai)giei=s
ou)/te
trei=s
ou)/te
te/ssares
Adler number: alphaiota,45
Translated headword: Aigians (are) neither three nor four
Vetting Status: high
Translation: [sc. A proverbial phrase] in reference to the excessively paltry. For the Aigians in Argos [
Myth,
Place], after they had beaten the Aitolians, asked the Pythia[1] who were [the best of Greeks]. She responded to them: "Aigians [are] neither three nor four, nor even tenth."[2]
*ai)giei=s ou)/te trei=s ou)/te te/ssares: e)pi\ tw=n a)/gan eu)telw=n. oi( ga\r e)n *)/argei *ai)giei=s nikh/santes *ai)twlou\s h)rw/twn th\n *puqi/an, ti/nes ei)=en. a)nei=le de\ au)toi=s: *ai)giei=s ou)/te trei=s ou)/te te/ssares, a)ll' ou)de\ dekatai=oi.
Notes:
cf.
Zenobius 1.48 (with, geographically correctly, 'Aigians in Achaia' --
alphaiota 55) and other paroemiographers.
[1] The priestess (and mouthpiece) of Apollo at
Delphi:
pi 3127.
[2] cf.
upsilon 108, where (as is more common) the community concerned is Megara, and the number is 12th.
J. Fontenrose, The Delphic Oracle (Berkeley 1978) Q26.
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Translated by: William Hutton on 28 October 2002@11:30:31.
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