Ὦ Ἡράκλεις τί μαίνῃ
O Heracles why are you mad?
Translated by Christopher Star27 May 2000Vetting: high5 revisions
Translation
They say that this was said by the Argonauts, when they were calling on Heracles who had been left behind by them in accordance with a wish of Hera.
Greek original · Adler’s text
Ὦ Ἡράκλεις, τί μαίνῃ· τοῦτο λεχθῆναι ὑπὸ τῶν Ἀργοναυτῶν φασιν, ἀνακαλούντων τὸν Ἡρακλέα ἀπολειφθέντα αὐτῶν κατὰ βούλησιν τῆς Ἥρας.
Betacode
*)=w *(hra/kleis, ti/ mai/nh|: tou=to lexqh=nai u(po\ tw=n *)argonautw=n fasin, a)nakalou/ntwn to\n *(hrakle/a a)poleifqe/nta au)tw=n kata\ bou/lhsin th=s *(/hras.
Notes
- Adler tentatively ascribed this entry to the "Proverbia" (see the introduction to Adler's edition, vol. I, p. XIX, for a brief explanation of their sources); and in fact it occurs in one of the late paroemiographic collections -- Arsenius, Apophthegms 18.57f -- with the gloss 'in reference to those who are angry.'
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