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Headword:
*tanta/lou
kh/pous
truga=n
Adler number: tau,80
Translated headword: to pick fruit in Tantalus' gardens
Vetting Status: high
Translation: Isaeus the orator was dissolute as a young man, but later was sensible. Someone asked him: what is the best of the fishes and of the birds for eating? 'I have stopped', said
Isaeus, 'being keen on such things; for I realised I was picking fruit in Tantalus' gardens'. No doubt by this he was showing the questioner that all pleasures are shadows and dreams.[1]
And elsewhere [sc. is attested the phrase]: 'to think that Tantalus' stone has been hung over one's head on fine strings'.[2]
In reference to the hapless.
Greek Original:*tanta/lou kh/pous truga=n: *)isai/ou tou= r(h/toros newte/rou a)swteuome/nou, u(/steron de\ swfronh/santos, h)/reto au)to/n tis, ti/s a)/ristos tw=n i)xqu/wn kai\ tw=n o)rne/wn ei)s brw=sin. pe/paumai, e)/fh o( *)isai=os, tau=ta spouda/zwn: cunh=ka ga\r tou\s *tanta/lou kh/pous trugw=n. e)ndeiknu/menos dh/pou tw=| e)rome/nw| tau=ta, o(/ti skia\ kai\ o)nei/rata ai( h(donai\ pa=sai. kai\ au)=qis: to\n *tanta/lou li/qon oi)/esqai u(pe\r kefalh=s leptoi=s kalw|di/ois h)rth=sqai. e)pi\ tw=n a)mhxa/nwn.
Notes:
[1]
Philostratus,
Lives of the Sophists 1.20; see already at
iota 620. For Tantalus cf.
tau 77,
tau 78,
tau 79,
tau 81.
[2] cf. Gregorius 4.78, and other paroemiographers. See also C. Theodoridis in his
Photius edition (vol.II p.XCVII), identifying
Synesius,
Oratio de regno 19 as the Suda's source here.
Translated by: David Whitehead on 21 March 2010@10:20:11.
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