[sc. A proverbial phrase arising] through those treating their associates as conspirators -- saying that the safety [sc. that comes] with the quiet life is a matter of less fear than those running risks in a conspicuous life.
*po/rrw *dio/s te kai\ keraunou=: dia\ to\ tou\s e)pibou/lous toi=s sunou=si xrwme/nous, a)dee/steron ei)=nai le/gousa th\n met' a)pragmosu/nhs a)sfa/leian tw=n e)n e)pifanei= bi/w| kinduneuo/ntwn.
The earliest extant occurrence of this proverbial phrase is in the paroemiographer
Diogenianus (7.77b), with the succinct gloss "because one must flee from tyrants as from a thunderbolt". This Suda entry as a whole, however, stems from
Synesius,
Oratio de regno 11 (PG 66.1072b), with small variants: S. has simple
dia/ rather than the Suda's
dia\ to/, and adverbial
e)pibou/lws where the Suda has
e)pibou/lous. The Suda also begins in the middle of a sentence, with
le/gousa ("saying") referring back to
paroimi/a, i.e. this very proverb.
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