Αἰσώπειον αἷμα
Aesopic blood
Translated by William Hutton21 May 2003Vetting: high3 revisions
Translation
[sc. A proverbial phrase] in reference to those being killed unjustly. For the Delphians did not kill Aesop justifiably.
Thus 'Aesopic blood' [is used] in reference to those who are beset by irremediable disgraces and evils. For it happened that the divinity waxed wroth at the Delphians; they killed Aesop unjustly.
Thus 'Aesopic blood' [is used] in reference to those who are beset by irremediable disgraces and evils. For it happened that the divinity waxed wroth at the Delphians; they killed Aesop unjustly.
Greek original · Adler’s text
Αἰσώπειον αἷμα· ἐπὶ τῶν ἀδίκως ἀναιρουμένων. οὐ γὰρ ἐνδίκως ἀπέκτειναν τὸν Αἴσωπον οἱ Δελφοί. Αἰσώπειον οὖν αἷμα, ἐπὶ τῶν δυσαπονίπτοις ὀνείδεσι καὶ κακοῖς συνεχομένων. Δελφοῖς γὰρ συνέβη τὸ δαιμόνιον ὀργισθῆναι, ἀδίκως ἀνελοῦσιν Αἴσωπον.
Betacode
*ai)sw/peion ai(=ma: e)pi\ tw=n a)di/kws a)nairoume/nwn. ou) ga\r e)ndi/kws a)pe/kteinan to\n *ai)/swpon oi( *delfoi/. *ai)sw/peion ou)=n ai(=ma, e)pi\ tw=n dusaponi/ptois o)nei/desi kai\ kakoi=s sunexome/nwn. *delfoi=s ga\r sune/bh to\ daimo/nion o)rgisqh=nai, a)di/kws a)nelou=sin *ai)/swpon.
Notes
- The story of Aesop's death is told at alphaiota 334.
For the proverb -- in its second version here -- see Zenobius 1.47, etc.
Linked from4 entries
- αι334ΑἴσωποςAesopA Samian or Sardian, though Eugeiton said that he was a Mesembrian, and others [call him] a Phrygian from Kotiaiaon. He became a logopoios, which is an inventor of stories and responses. Being welcomed at [the palace…
- αι335ΑἴσωποςAesopThe composer of stories, a Samian, a slave not more by fortune than by his own choosing; neither senseless nor in terms of this very thing a man. For as the law [or: custom] did not give him a share in frankness, it…
- ε1909Ἔωσενshoved[He/she/it] pushed off, [he/she/it] set upon. "She shoved his head down while he was leaning into the pot in order to draw off wine and suffocated him." Also concerning Aesop: "the Delphians shoved him right off a…
- χ402ΧορίαμβοςchoriambA meter of verse. Babrias or Babrios, [wrote] Myths or Fables: for they are in choriambs, in ten books. This man changed some of the fables of Aesop from his prose tales into verse; that is choriambs.
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Revision history3 revisions · last 17 May 2012
- another keyword; cosmetics — David Whitehead
- added note; modified keywords; cosmetics — David Whitehead
- added note — Catharine Roth
- Translated — William Hutton