Μῶρά μοι δοκεῖς φρονεῖν
you seem to me to think foolish things
Translated by William Hutton26 Jul 2009Vetting: high3 revisions
Translation
Meaning you are naive, now wishing to mollify, since time has reached a critical juncture. Ajax says [this] to Tecmessa.1 And elsewhere: "isn't your plan foolish, to strive for tyranny without a rabble and allies, a thing which is acquired with a rabble and with money?"2
And again: "O fool, fool, do not incite terrible thoughts in gods, lest Justice overturn your whole family into complete oblivion with the mattock of Zeus." It is said in reference to blasphemers.3
And again: "O fool, fool, do not incite terrible thoughts in gods, lest Justice overturn your whole family into complete oblivion with the mattock of Zeus." It is said in reference to blasphemers.3
Greek original · Adler’s text
Μῶρά μοι δοκεῖς φρονεῖν· ἀντὶ τοῦ εὐήθης εἶ, νῦν βουλόμενος μαλάσσειν, ἐξακμάσαντος τοῦ καιροῦ. ὁ Αἴας φησὶ πρὸς Τέκμησσαν. καὶ αὖθις· ἆρ' οὐχὶ μῶρόν ἐστι τοὐγχείρημά σου, ἄνευ τε πλήθους καὶ φίλων τυραννίδα θηρᾶν, ὃ πλήθει χρήμασίν θ' ἁλίσκεται; καὶ αὖθις· ὦ μῶρε, μῶρε, μὴ θεῶν κίνει φρένας δεινάς, ὅπως μή σου γένος πανώλεθρον Διὸς μακέλλῃ πᾶν ἀναστρέψῃ δίκη. ἐπὶ τῶν βλασφήμων εἴρηται.
Betacode
*mw=ra/ moi dokei=s fronei=n: a)nti\ tou= eu)h/qhs ei)=, nu=n boulo/menos mala/ssein, e)cakma/santos tou= kairou=. o( *ai)/as fhsi\ pro\s *te/kmhssan. kai\ au)=qis: a)=r' ou)xi\ mw=ro/n e)sti tou)gxei/rhma/ sou, a)/neu te plh/qous kai\ fi/lwn turanni/da qhra=n, o(\ plh/qei xrh/masi/n q' a(li/sketai; kai\ au)=qis: w)= mw=re, mw=re, mh\ qew=n ki/nei fre/nas deina/s, o(/pws mh/ sou ge/nos panw/leqron *dio\s make/llh| pa=n a)nastre/yh| di/kh. e)pi\ tw=n blasfh/mwn ei)/rhtai.
Notes (3)
External resources
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Linked from6 entries
- μ67Μάκελλαmattock[Meaning an agricultural/horticultural] fork. Aristophanes [writes]: "o fool, fool, do not stir up the cowardly wrath of the gods, so that justice may not utterly destroy your entire race with Zeus's mattock". It is…
- μ97ΜαλάσσωI make soft, I make supple[Used] with an accusative.
- μ1337Μῶραfoolish [things], stupid [things]Meaning senseless [ones], absurd [ones]. "And there is a saying of the older generation: however many senseless, foolish distresses we choose, they all do us good in the end." It is said that Poseidon and Athena…
- μ1341Μωρόςdull, stupid[Meaning] one who is mindless.
- μ1342ΜῶροςfoolishIn Attic writers it takes a circumflex on the penult. "O foolish men, you do not know what that wisest tragedian said: 'The tongue has sworn, but the mind was unsworn'."
- π213Πανωλεθρίαutter destructionAlso [sc. attested is the related adjective] panw/lhs, [meaning] someone utterly destroyed.
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Revision history3 revisions · last 28 May 2013
- another note and keyword; tweaking — David Whitehead
- cosmetics — Catharine Roth
- x-ref; cosmetics — David Whitehead
- Translated — William Hutton