Ἀκροσφαλεῖς
precarious
Translated by Jennifer Benedict6 Mar 2000Vetting: high6 revisions
Translation
[Meaning they who are] stumbling in the [act of] walking. That is the Huns.1
In Philoctetes:1 "...that all things are awful for mortals and uncertain: to fare well or to fare otherwise. It is necessary for one who is outside miseries to expect awful things. And whenever someone is doing well, that is the time he should examine his life most of all, so disaster does not sneak up on him."2
In Philoctetes:1 "...that all things are awful for mortals and uncertain: to fare well or to fare otherwise. It is necessary for one who is outside miseries to expect awful things. And whenever someone is doing well, that is the time he should examine his life most of all, so disaster does not sneak up on him."2
Greek original · Adler’s text
Ἀκροσφαλεῖς· ἐν τῷ βαδίζειν σφαλλόμενοι. τουτέστιν οἱ Οὖννοι. Φιλοκτήτῃ· ὡς πάντα δεινὰ κἀπικινδύνως βροτοῖς κεῖται· παθεῖν μὲν εὖ, παθεῖν δὲ θάτερα. χρὴ δ' ἐκτὸς ὄντα πημάτων τὰ δεῖν' ὁρᾶν· χὤταν τίς εὖ ζῇ, τηνικαῦτα τὸν βίον σκοπεῖν μάλιστα, μὴ διαφθαρεὶς λάθῃ.
Betacode
*)akrosfalei=s: e)n tw=| badi/zein sfallo/menoi. toute/stin oi( *ou)=nnoi. *filokth/th|: w(s pa/nta deina\ ka)pikindu/nws brotoi=s kei=tai: paqei=n me\n eu)=, paqei=n de\ qa/tera. xrh\ d' e)kto\s o)/nta phma/twn ta\ dei=n' o(ra=n: xw)/tan ti/s eu)= zh=|, thnikau=ta to\n bi/on skopei=n ma/lista, mh\ diafqarei\s la/qh|.
Notes (2)
- 1See already alpha 1018. ↩
- 2Sophocles, Philoctetes 502-506 (web address 1); cf. theta 61. This quotation does not contain the headword of this entry, but has some vague connection to it in sense. ↩
External resources
- Web address 1 perseus.tufts.edu
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Revision history6 revisions · last 22 May 2015
- Revised — David Whitehead
- tweaked note — Catharine Roth
- upgraded link — Catharine Roth
- more keywords — David Whitehead
- augmented notes; cosmetics — David Whitehead
- Altered translation. Added note and link to Sophocles' text. — William Hutton
- Translated — Jennifer Benedict