Τυμβογέροντες

one-foot-in-the-gravers

Translated by David Whitehead4 Nov 2010Vetting: high4 revisions

1 note · 17 words

[The] fifth age of old men, as Theophrastus also [says].¹ [When they are] bent and mentally deteriorated.

Greek original · Adler’s text

Τυμβογέροντες· πέμπτη ἡλικία γερόντων, ὡς καὶ Θεόφραστος. παραπλῆγες καὶ τῇ διανοίᾳ παρηλλαγμένοι.

Betacode

*tumboge/rontes: pe/mpth h(liki/a gero/ntwn, w(s kai\ *qeo/frastos. paraplh=ges kai\ th=| dianoi/a| parhllagme/noi.

Notes (1)

Same entry in Photius, Lexicon tau546 Theodoridis (and, post-Suda, Etymologicum Magnum 771.41); similar one elsewhere. For the headword itself, see already tau 1157 (singular).
1Not in any extant work; rather, Theophrastus fr. 464 Fortenbaugh. ↩

Linked from1 entry

τ1157Τυμβογέρωνfossil; old man with one foot in the grave[Meaning one who is] aged. Procopius [writes]: "Justinus the emperor was already a fossil." Alternatively tumboge/rwn, [meaning] at the last extremity of old age.

Neighbouring entries

τ1158Τύμβοςcairn, barrow, grave τ1159Τυμβείαburial τ1160Τυμβογέροντεςone-foot-in-the-gravers τ1161Τυμβοχοεῖheaps a cairn, heaps a tomb τ1162Τύμμαblow, wound

Revision history4 revisions · last 29 May 2016

29 May 2016Revised — David Whitehead
16 Jan 2014Revised — David Whitehead
8 Nov 2010expanded notes — David Whitehead
8 Nov 2010expanded note, set status — Catharine Roth
4 Nov 2010Translated — David Whitehead