Παράθερμος
over-hot
Translated by Kyle Helms3 Jan 2011Vetting: high8 revisions
Translation
[Meaning one who is] acting contrary to what is appropriate. "But being by nature over-hot and [...] agitated he1 managed many things with an impression of craziness; [...] to such an extent differing from others in his witlessness, [by as much] as not being able to learn from experience [is more serious] than falling when struck the first time."2
Greek original · Adler’s text
Παράθερμος· παρὰ τὸ προσῆκον ἐργαζόμενος. ὢν δὲ φύσει παράθερμος καὶ παρακεκινηκὼς πολλὰ διῴκει μανίᾳ προσεμφερῶς· τοσοῦτον τ' ἀφροσύνῃ διενεγκὼν τῶν ἄλλων, τῷ μηδὲ ἐκ τῆς πείρας δύνασθαι διδαχθῆναι τοῦ πρώτως ἐπιβαλλόμενον σφαλῆναι.
Betacode
*para/qermos: para\ to\ prosh=kon e)rgazo/menos. w)\n de\ fu/sei para/qermos kai\ parakekinhkw\s polla\ diw/|kei mani/a| prosemferw=s: tosou=ton t' a)frosu/nh| dienegkw\n tw=n a)/llwn, tw=| mhde\ e)k th=s pei/ras du/nasqai didaxqh=nai tou= prw/tws e)piballo/menon sfalh=nai.
Notes (2)
- 1The Roman consul P. Claudius Pulcher, upon his arrival in Sicily in 249 BCE (where he was to suffer a calamitous naval defeat by the Carthaginians). See on him the OCD4 entry (p.328) by John Briscoe; and, besides Diodorus (next note), Polybius 1.49-52 with Walbank 1.113-115. ↩
- 2A clumsy approximation and abridgement of Diodorus Siculus 24.3.2 (via Excerpta Constantiniana EV I 260.10-16). ↩
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- Translated — Kyle Helms