Πάγας
snares
Translated by Catharine Roth4 Jan 2003Vetting: high5 revisions
Translation
[Meaning] nets, traps.1
"And indeed this [happened] in accordance with the saying of Aeschylus; falling by [arrows fledged with] his own feathers and caught by the snares which he wove for others, he justly suffered the penalty of the law."2 "Like one who prepares [evil] for another, he prepares evil for his own heart [lit. 'liver']."3
"And indeed this [happened] in accordance with the saying of Aeschylus; falling by [arrows fledged with] his own feathers and caught by the snares which he wove for others, he justly suffered the penalty of the law."2 "Like one who prepares [evil] for another, he prepares evil for his own heart [lit. 'liver']."3
Greek original · Adler’s text
Πάγας· δίκτυα, παγίδας. καὶ τοῦτο δήπου τὸ τοῦ Αἰσχύλου, τοῖς ἑαυτοῦ πτεροῖς περιπεσὼν καὶ ἐνσχεθεὶς ταῖς πάγαις ἃς ἄλλοις ὑφῆκε, τὰ ἐκ τοῦ νόμου δικαίως ἔπαθε. τεύχων ὡς ἑτέρῳ τις, ἑῷ κακὸν ἥπατι τεύχει.
Betacode
*pa/gas: di/ktua, pagi/das. kai\ tou=to dh/pou to\ tou= *ai)sxu/lou, toi=s e(autou= pteroi=s peripesw\n kai\ e)nsxeqei\s tai=s pa/gais a(\s a)/llois u(fh=ke, ta\ e)k tou= no/mou dikai/ws e)/paqe. teu/xwn w(s e(te/rw| tis, e(w=| kako\n h(/pati teu/xei.
Notes (3)
- 1The headword, accusative plural, has the same glosses in other lexica (references at Photius pi1 Theodoridis); it is evidently extracted from somewhere. The remainder of the entry illustrates sayings (the first of them involving the dative plural of the headword) of the "hoist by his own petard" type. ↩
- 2Aelian fr. 22c Domingo-Forasté, part of 22 Hercher (on an Athenian politician who fell foul of his own law -- see gamma 392, repeated under delta 1188, and cf. pi 2493, omega 293); Aeschylus fr. 139.4 Radt. ↩
- 3Callimachus, Aetia fr.2, line 5 (from Eustathius, Commentary on the Iliad 522.15). Part of the same fragment-cluster in Hercher and D-F, but also quoted by Aelian elsewhere: Varia historia 8.9. ↩
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- Translated — Catharine Roth