Προμέρου κύνες
Promeros' dogs
Translated by David Whitehead1 Oct 2002Vetting: high4 revisions
Translation
They say that this man was a royal slave with an excessive hatred of Euripides; the result was that he set wild dogs on him, which devoured him.
Greek original · Adler’s text
Προμέρου κύνες· τοῦτον φασὶ βασιλικὸν δοῦλον ὄντα μισήσαι Εὐριπίδην καθ' ὑπερβολήν, ὥστε καὶ κύνας ἀγρίους ἐπαφεῖναι αὐτῷ, οἵτινες αὐτὸν κατεθοινήσαντο.
Betacode
*prome/rou ku/nes: tou=ton fasi\ basiliko\n dou=lon o)/nta mish/sai *eu)ripi/dhn kaq' u(perbolh/n, w(/ste kai\ ku/nas a)gri/ous e)pafei=nai au)tw=|, oi(/tines au)to\n kateqoinh/santo.
Notes
- cf. Diogenianus 7.52, and other paroemiographers. For this episode see in context at epsilon 3695. (The king in question is Archelaos of Macedon, reigned 413-399 BCE.)
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