Πολύζηλος
Polyzelos, Polyzelus
Translated by Ross Scaife ✝3 Dec 2002Vetting: high3 revisions
Translation
This fellow, blinded when he saw a phantom too great for the eyes to endure covering his shield for Pan ... (for they imagined Pan was their ally), fought as if he saw, and discerned by the sound his own men and the enemy.
Greek original · Adler’s text
Πολύζηλος· οὗτος πηρωθείς, ὡς φάσμα θεασάμενος μεῖζον ἢ ὥστε τοῖς ὀφθαλμοῖς ἐνεγκεῖν τῷ Πανὶ κρύπτον τὴν ἀσπίδα [σύμμαχον τὸν Πᾶνα δ' εἰκάζουσιν εἶναι] ἐμάχετο ὡς ὁρῶν καὶ διέκρινε τῇ φωνῇ τοὺς ἰδίους καὶ τοὺς πολεμίους.
Betacode
*polu/zhlos: ou(=tos phrwqei/s, w(s fa/sma qeasa/menos mei=zon h)\ w(/ste toi=s o)fqalmoi=s e)negkei=n tw=| *pani\ kru/pton th\n a)spi/da [su/mmaxon to\n *pa=na d' ei)ka/zousin ei)=nai] e)ma/xeto w(s o(rw=n kai\ die/krine th=| fwnh=| tou\s i)di/ous kai\ tou\s polemi/ous.
Notes
- Garbled. For a better version of the story see the end of iota 545 with the accompanying note.
Linked from3 entries
- ι545ἹππίαςHippiasA general of [the] Athenians. This man urged Darius to march against the Athenians and Greece, with Intaphernes and Datis as satraps and three hundred thousand soldiers, and he himself returned home with them, though he…
- π1960Πολύζηλοςfull of emulation, much admired"O wealth and tyranny and art surpassing art in the life which is full of emulation: how much envy is maintained among you!"
- φ129Φάσμαvision"The other bull bellowed -- a bad sound to Garmos. And that vision seemed to be a goat, not a bull".
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Revision history3 revisions · last 26 Oct 2011
- Revised — David Whitehead
- added keyword; cosmetics — David Whitehead
- augmented translation — Catharine Roth
- Translated — Ross Scaife ✝