Αἰγυπτία κληματίς
Egyptian vine-branch.
Translated by Phiroze Vasunia20 Feb 2000Vetting: high7 revisions
Translation
[sc. A proverbial phrase] in reference to lean and fairly tall men; such a man was Zeno of Citium. It is said that he consulted the oracle to learn how he might live the best life, and that the god's answer was that he should go skin-to-skin with the dead. Hence, understanding the implication of this, he read the works of the ancients.1