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Headword:
*tri/tou
krath=ros
Adler number: tau,1024
Translated headword: of the third krater, of the third mixing-bowl
Vetting Status: high
Translation: [Meaning] that of [sc. Zeus] the Saviour; the one they also used to call complete/final. At any rate they say that the first is that of the Olympians, the second that of the Heroes.
Plato in
Republic [writes]: "as to the third, in Olympic manner, both to the Saviour and to the Olympian."[1]
*tri/tou krath=ros: tou= *swth=ros: o(\n kai\ te/leion e)/legon. to\n me/n ge prw=ton *)olumpi/wn fasi/: to\n de\ deu/teron *(hrw/wn. *pla/twn *politei/a|: to\n de\ tri/ton *)olumpikw=s tw=| *swth=ri/ te kai\ *)olumpi/w|.
Notes:
=
Photius,
Lexicon tau477 Theodoridis (taken to come from Aelius
Dionysius: tau25), though '
Plato in Republic' is the Suda's own addition. The headword phrase itself, which became proverbial, appears to derive from
Sophocles fr. 425:
spondh\ tri/tou krath=ros.
cf. generally
kappa 2338.
[1]
Plato,
Republic 9.583B (web address 1).
Web address 1
Keywords: athletics; daily life; definition; food; philosophy; proverbs; religion; tragedy
Translated by: David Whitehead on 20 May 2011@05:14:43.
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