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Headword: *(/hlic h(/lika te/rpei
Adler number: eta,231
Translated headword: age-mate delights age-mate
Vetting Status: high
Translation:
"He alone of men whom we know by hearsay refuted the old proverb in deed; for his age-mates' company did not give give him pleasure, young men did not please him though he was young, but nature following some other rule attached him to those who were like him, according to the similarity not of bodily years but of the soul's character."
Greek Original:
*(/hlic h(/lika te/rpei: mo/nos a)nqrw/pwn w(=n a)koh=| i)/smen th\n palaia\n paroimi/an e)/rgw| dih/legcen: ou) ga\r e)kei=no/n ge h(/lic e)/terpen h(/lika o)/nta, o( ne/os to\n ne/on, a)lla/ tini lo/gw| e(te/rw| katakolouqou=sa h( fu/sis toi=s o(moi/ois au)to\n sunh=pte kata\ to\ o(/moion ou) tw=n e)tw=n tou= sw/matos, a)lla\ tw=n tro/pwn th=s yuxh=s.
Note:
Damascius, Life of Isidore fr. 99 Zintzen (51 Asmus, and now 42E Athanassiadi). For earlier appearances of this 'old proverb' see e.g. Plato, Phaedrus 240C (with this very phrase), several times in Aristotle, and the paroemiographers; Tosi (cited under alpha 378) no.1066. It is presumably the end of a line of hexameter verse.
Keywords: biography; daily life; ethics; meter and music; philosophy; poetry; proverbs
Translated by: Catharine Roth on 21 February 2004@01:13:10.
Vetted by:
David Whitehead (modified and augmented note; more keywords; cosmetic) on 22 February 2004@04:51:01.
David Whitehead (expanded note; another keyword; cosmetics) on 16 August 2012@09:31:47.
David Whitehead (another keyword; cosmetics) on 13 December 2012@05:41:35.

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