Θεσσαλῶν νόμισμα
Thessalians' usage
Translated by David Whitehead22 May 2003Vetting: high9 revisions
Translation
This proverbial saying is applied to deceit.1
"With Philip as king of Macedonia for 20 years and having subjugated Thessaly, where he founded a city and called it Thessalonike ['Thessaly-victory']."2
Others [say] that the city was founded in the name of his daughter Thessalonike.3
"With Philip as king of Macedonia for 20 years and having subjugated Thessaly, where he founded a city and called it Thessalonike ['Thessaly-victory']."2
Others [say] that the city was founded in the name of his daughter Thessalonike.3
Greek original · Adler’s text
Θεσσαλῶν νόμισμα· παροιμιῶδες τοῦτο τασσόμενον ἐπὶ ἀπάτης. τῆς δὲ Μακεδονίας βασιλεύοντος Φιλίππου ἔτη κʹ καὶ τὴν Θεσσαλίαν ὑποτάξαντος, ἐν ᾗ πόλιν κτίσας ἐκάλεσε Θεσσαλονίκην. οἱ δὲ ἐπ' ὀνόματι Θεσσαλονίκης θυγατρὸς ἐκτίσθαι τὴν πόλιν.
Betacode
*qessalw=n no/misma: paroimiw=des tou=to tasso/menon e)pi\ a)pa/ths. th=s de\ *makedoni/as basileu/ontos *fili/ppou e)/th k# kai\ th\n *qessali/an u(pota/cantos, e)n h(=| po/lin kti/sas e)ka/lese *qessaloni/khn. oi( de\ e)p' o)no/mati *qessaloni/khs qugatro\s e)kti/sqai th\n po/lin.
Notes (3)
- 1cf. the very similar theta 182/theta 259/theta 291. For this gloss, cf. the scholia to Euripides, Phoenician Women 1407-8. ↩
- 2George the Monk, Chronicon 25.10-12 (where however the first participle is aorist, not present: 'when Philip had been...'). See also John Malalas Chronographia VII.19 Thurn (145); cf. Jeffreys et al. (101). Thessalonike (modern-day Thessaloniki, Northern Greece) is located on the Thermaic Gulf, the northwest corner of the Aegean Sea, Barrington Atlas map 50 grid C3. ↩
- 3Thessalonike was indeed the daughter of Philip II, but the city was founded by her husband Kassandros/Cassander. ↩
References
J. Thurn, ed., Ioannis Malalae Chronographia, (Berlin 2000)
E. Jeffreys, M. Jeffreys, and R. Scott, trans., The Chronicle of John Malalas, (Leiden 1986)
E. Jeffreys, M. Jeffreys, and R. Scott, trans., The Chronicle of John Malalas, (Leiden 1986)
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- added map reference n.2 — Ronald Allen
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- Revised — David Whitehead
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- cosmetics — Catharine Roth
- Translated — David Whitehead