Πηλέως μάχαιρα
Peleus' knife
Translated by David Whitehead2 Feb 2007Vetting: high5 revisions
Translation
A proverb;1 this Aristophanes also2 places on record; "he is prouder than Peleus was at the knife". It seems to have been a Hephaestus-wrought gift for restraint, the knife which Peleus took.
Greek original · Adler’s text
Πηλέως μάχαιρα· παροιμία· ταύτην ἀναγράφει καὶ Ἀριστοφάνης οὕτως· μέγα φρονεῖ μᾶλλον ἢ Πηλεὺς ἐπὶ τῇ μαχαίρᾳ. ἣ ἐδόκει σωφροσύνης γέρας ἡφαιστότευκτος, ἣν εἰλήφει μάχαιραν ὁ Πηλεύς.
Betacode
*phle/ws ma/xaira: paroimi/a: tau/thn a)nagra/fei kai\ *)aristofa/nhs ou(/tws: me/ga fronei= ma=llon h)\ *phleu\s e)pi\ th=| maxai/ra|. h(\ e)do/kei swfrosu/nhs ge/ras h(faisto/teuktos, h(\n ei)lh/fei ma/xairan o( *phleu/s.
Notes (2)
- See mu 393 (and for 'knife' see generally mu 302). Similar but longer entry in Photius' Lexicon (pi851 Theodoridis).
- 1cf. Appendix Proverbiorum 4.57 and other paroemiographers. ↩
- 2This phrase, also in Photius, presumably means 'as well as others'. (NB: what follows is a fragment of Aristophanes of Byzantium's Proverbs. His namesake the comic poet mentions the proverb, at Clouds 1063, but does not quote it in this form.) ↩
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