Οὐδὲ Ἡρακλῆς πρὸς δύο
not even Heracles (can fight) against two
Translated by Tony Natoli5 Sep 2007Vetting: high9 revisions
Translation
Greek original · Adler’s text
Οὐδὲ Ἡρακλῆς πρὸς δύο· τοὺς Μολιονίδας ἔφυγε. Δίων δὲ ἐν βʹ τῆς βʹ συντάξεως Ἡρακλέα τὸν Ἰδαῖον Δάκτυλον, καταδείξαντα Ὀλύμπια, πρὸς δύο διαπυκτεύσαντα ἡττηθῆναι.
Betacode
*ou)de\ *(hraklh=s pro\s du/o: tou\s *molioni/das e)/fuge. *di/wn de\ e)n b# th=s b# sunta/cews *(hrakle/a to\n *)idai=on *da/ktulon, katadei/canta *)olu/mpia, pro\s du/o diapukteu/santa h(tthqh=nai.
Notes (4)
- Likewise in Photius, Lexicon omicron606 Theodoridis (with copious references) = Pausanias the Atticist omicron30; later in the paroemiographer Michael Apostolius (13.29)
For this proverb see also omicron 794 (and pi 2622), and generally Tosi [cited under alpha 378] no.688. - 1(The connecting
ga/r is explicit in Photius and Apostolius.) The Molionidai, a.k.a. Moliones, were Cteatus and Erytus, the twin sons of Actor and Molione. See OCD(4) s.v. 'Moliones'. ↩ - 2'Dio[n]' has been taken to be a mistake for the fourth century BCE historian Dinon (or Deinon) of Colophon (OCD(4) s.v. 'Dinon'): see FGrH 690 F2. ↩
- 3Pausanias 5.7.6-7 (web address 1) records the Elean account of how the Olympic Games were founded by Heracles, the eldest of the five Dactyls of Ida in Crete (on whom see OCD(4) s.v. 'Idean Dactyls', and cf. alpha 1338, iota 92, iota 93). ↩
- 4Presumably the two Moliones, from whom he escaped, are intended. ↩
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- updated some refs — David Whitehead
- coding — Catharine Roth
- expanded two notes; tweaks and cosmetics — David Whitehead
- upgraded link — Catharine Roth
- Revised — David Whitehead
- added primary note; tweaking — David Whitehead
- tweaks and cosmetics; augmented notes and keywords — David Whitehead
- punctuation — Catharine Roth
- added cross-references, adjusted link, set status — Catharine Roth
- Translated — Tony Natoli