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Headword: *qra=|kes o(/rkia ou)k e)pi/stantai
Adler number: theta,449
Translated headword: Thracians do not understand oaths
Vetting Status: high
Translation:
Menander mentions this in his first [book].[1] For he says that in this land the most senior(?) died after a javelin had pierced him though the chest. This gave rise to a riddle amongst Ionians and Aeolians: Thracians do not understand oaths.
Greek Original:
*qra=|kes o(/rkia ou)k e)pi/stantai: tau/ths me/mnhtai *me/nandros e)n th=| prw/th|. le/gei ga/r, o(/ti e)n tau/th| th=| gh=| o( presbu/tatos a)kontisqei\s dia\ tou= sth/qous a)pw/leto: kai\ e)nteu=qen *)/iwsi kai\ *ai)oleu=sin ai)/nigma e)ge/neto: *qra=|kes o(/rkia ou)k e)pi/stantai.
Notes:
Zenobius 4.32. For Thracian duplicity see also theta 450.
[1] Menander of Ephesus, FGrH 783 F8. (Ignore attributions to Menander the comic poet, Menander Protector, and any other homonyms.)
Keywords: daily life; ethics; geography; historiography; military affairs; proverbs; religion
Translated by: David Whitehead on 22 April 2003@10:16:31.
Vetted by:
Catharine Roth on 14 August 2003@00:27:40.
David Whitehead (added keyword) on 14 August 2003@03:26:54.
David Whitehead on 3 January 2012@04:14:54.
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