Ῥιπός
on a wickerwork
Translated by Catharine Roth21 Sep 2010Vetting: high4 revisions
Translation
[Meaning on] a dry twig, a rush mat.1 "For the sake of profit, [he] would sail even on a wickerwork mat." [This] would be said in reference to a lover of gain. But it is also said otherwise: "sailing with a [willing] god" -- or best, sailing for a [willing] god -- "even if one sails on a wickerwork mat."2
Also [sc. attested is the dative plural]r(i/pesi ["with wickerwork things"], [meaning] with the branches of the willow-tree.3
Also [sc. attested is the dative plural]
Greek original · Adler’s text
Ῥιπός· φρυγάνου, ψιάθου. κέρδους δ' ἕκητι κἂν ἐπὶ ῥιπὸς πλέοι. λέγοιτο δ' ἂν ἐπὶ φιλοκερδεῖ. λέγεται δὲ καὶ ἄλλως· θεοῦ πλέων, ἢ μάλιστα· θεῷ πλέων, κἂν ἐπὶ ῥιπὸς πλέοι. καὶ ῥίπεσι, τοῖς τῆς ἰτέας κλάδοις.
Betacode
*(ripo/s: fruga/nou, yia/qou. ke/rdous d' e(/khti ka)\n e)pi\ r(ipo\s ple/oi. le/goito d' a)\n e)pi\ filokerdei=. le/getai de\ kai\ a)/llws: qeou= ple/wn, h)\ ma/lista: qew=| ple/wn, ka)\n e)pi\ r(ipo\s ple/oi. kai\ r(i/pesi, toi=s th=s i)te/as kla/dois.
Notes (3)
- cf. sigma 105.
- 1Genitive singular of
r(i/y , presumably from the quotation which follows (where the case is determined by the preposition). ↩ - 2Aristophanes, Peace 699 (web address 1), with a defective version of the scholion there. Several of the paroemiographers include this proverbial phrase (in the first of the grammatical forms given here); and see generally Tosi (cited under alpha 378) no.582. ↩
- 3cf. scholion on Homer, Odyssey 5.256, where the epic dative plural
r(i/pessi occurs, of constructing a raft (web address 2). ↩
External resources
- Web address 1 perseus.tufts.edu
- Web address 2 perseus.tufts.edu
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Revision history4 revisions · last 28 Oct 2013
- Revised — David Whitehead
- expanded note — David Whitehead
- Revised — David Whitehead
- augmented notes and keywords; tweaks and cosmetics — David Whitehead
- Translated — Catharine Roth