Πατροκλῆς

Patrokles, Patrocles

Translated by David Whitehead10 Oct 2001Vetting: high7 revisions

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A proper name. [sc. There is] also a proverb: out of Patrokles' [sc. house].1 In reference to those who are dirty and squalid. For Patrokles was an Athenian, extremely rich but in other respects someone who lived a bad life, avaricious and stingy; with economy in mind he allowed no-one to come near him; he wanted to safeguard his money and his mean life. So when Wealth is asked "where are you coming from?", he said "out of Patrokles'."

Greek original · Adler’s text

Πατροκλῆς· ὄνομα κύριον. καὶ παροιμία· ἐκ Πατροκλέους. ἐπὶ τῶν ῥυπώντων καὶ αὐχμηρῶν· Πατροκλῆς γὰρ ἐγένετο Ἀθηναῖος, πλούσιος σφόδρα, ἄλλως δὲ κακόβιός τις καὶ φιλοχρήματος καὶ σκνιπός· ὅστις ἕνεκεν τῆς φειδωλίας οὐδένα εἴα προσίεσθαι, φυλακῆς ἕνεκα τῶν χρημάτων καὶ γλίσχρου βίου. ὁ Πλοῦτος οὖν ἐρωτώμενος, πόθεν βαδίζεις; ἐκ Πατροκλέους, ἔφη.

Betacode
*patroklh=s: o)/noma ku/rion. kai\ paroimi/a: e)k *patrokle/ous. e)pi\ tw=n r(upw/ntwn kai\ au)xmhrw=n: *patroklh=s ga\r e)ge/neto *)aqhnai=os, plou/sios sfo/dra, a)/llws de\ kako/bio/s tis kai\ filoxrh/matos kai\ sknipo/s: o(/stis e(/neken th=s feidwli/as ou)de/na ei)/a prosi/esqai, fulakh=s e(/neka tw=n xrhma/twn kai\ gli/sxrou bi/ou. o( *plou=tos ou)=n e)rwtw/menos, po/qen badi/zeis; e)k *patrokle/ous, e)/fh.

Notes (1)

  1. From the scholia to Aristophanes, Wealth [Plutus] 84, where the quoted phrase appears (see web address 1). Other scholia there address more directly the point actually clear in the original - that Patrokles avoided the public baths; so "come near him" implies to wash him. See generally Kassel-Austin, PCG III.2 p.455, on Aristophanes fr. 455.
  2. 1In the paroemiographer Apostolius (13.100) it is "more stingy than Patrokles". ↩

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Revision history7 revisions · last 22 Dec 2014
  1. Revised — David Whitehead
  2. Revised — David Whitehead
  3. fixed link — Catharine Roth
  4. augmented notes — David Whitehead
  5. more keywords — David Whitehead
  6. cosmetics — David Whitehead
  7. added link, set status — Catharine Roth
  8. Translated — David Whitehead

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