Θᾶττον ὁ τόκος Ἡρακλείτω Περινέω τρέχει
the interest runs quicker than Heraclitus of Perineum
Translated by David Whitehead22 Apr 2003Vetting: high8 revisions
Translation
This man was marvelled at for speed. So the proverb is used of those borrowing at interest.
Greek original · Adler’s text
Θᾶττον ὁ τόκος Ἡρακλείτω Περινέω τρέχει· οὗτος ἐθαυμάσθη ἐπὶ τάχει. εἴρηται οὖν ἡ παροιμία ἐπὶ τῶν δανειζομένων διὰ τὸν τόκον.
Betacode
*qa=tton o( to/kos *(hraklei/tw *perine/w tre/xei: ou(=tos e)qauma/sqh e)pi\ ta/xei. ei)/rhtai ou)=n h( paroimi/a e)pi\ tw=n daneizome/nwn dia\ to\n to/kon.
Notes
- Anonyma Dorica fr.20 Kassel-Austin; Zenobius 4.35, etc.
The qualifier attached to H.'s name is obscure. No toponym called Perineum/Perinaium is otherwise attested (and it might, rather, be a patronymic: DW), but Buehler p. 337 emends the transmitted*Perinai/w (*Perine/w in the Suda) to*Terinai/w . For Ter(e)ina, in Bruttium (S. Italy), see Barrington Atlas map 46 grid D4; and for the ethnikon Tereinaios cf. [Plutarch], Lives of the Ten Attic Orators 845C.
References
Zenobii Athoi Proverbia vol.5, ed. W. Buehler (Goettingen 1997)
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