Τὸ Ἡσιόδειον γῆρας

Hesiodic old age

Translated by David Whitehead27 Apr 2003Vetting: high6 revisions

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[sc. A proverbial phrase] in reference to the extremely old; for something of the following kind is transmitted as an epigram of Pindar: "farewell Hesiod, twice a youth and twice met the grave,1 you who had the measure of wisdom for mankind."

Greek original · Adler’s text

Τὸ Ἡσιόδειον γῆρας· ἐπὶ τῶν ὑπεργήρων· φέρεται γὰρ καὶ ἐπίγραμμα Πινδάρου τοιοῦτον· χαῖρε δὶς ἡβήσας καὶ δὶς τάφων ἀντιβολήσας, Ἡσίοδ', ἀνθρώποις μέτρον ἔχων σοφίης.

Betacode
*to\ *(hsio/deion gh=ras: e)pi\ tw=n u(pergh/rwn: fe/retai ga\r kai\ e)pi/gramma *pinda/rou toiou=ton: xai=re di\s h(bh/sas kai\ di\s ta/fwn a)ntibolh/sas, *(hsi/od', a)nqrw/pois me/tron e)/xwn sofi/hs.

Notes (1)

  1. cf. (e.g.) Appendix Proverbiorum 4.92, which does not have the quotation but does cite Aristotle's Constitution of the Orchomenians (fr. 565 Rose) as the source of the epigram. See also Arsenius 18.12b.
    For Hesiod see generally eta 583; for Pindar (to whom the epigram is not attributed by modern scholars), pi 1617.
  2. 1Genitive plural ta/fwn is transmitted here, but it does not scan; the paroemiographers have singular ta/fou, which does. ↩

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Revision history6 revisions · last 10 Sep 2016
  1. added a note, at the prompting of Prof J C McKeown — David Whitehead
  2. Revised — David Whitehead
  3. Revised — David Whitehead
  4. expanded notes — David Whitehead
  5. augmented notes and keywords; tweaks — David Whitehead
  6. Revised — Catharine Roth
  7. Translated — David Whitehead

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