Ὑπὲρ τὰ Καλλικράτους
beyond those of Kallikrates
Translated by David Whitehead9 May 2001Vetting: high6 revisions
Translation
Klearchos says1 that Kallikrates was a very rich man in Karystos.2 So if ever the Karystians were marvelling at someone for his wealth and wanted to exaggerate, they used to say "beyond those of Kallikrates". But Aristotle in the Constitution of the Athenians says that a certain Kallikrates was the first to increase jury pay3 excessively.4 And from this the proverb was coined.
Greek original · Adler’s text
Ὑπὲρ τὰ Καλλικράτους· φησὶ Κλέαρχος, ὅτι Καλλικράτης τις ἐγένετο ἐν Καρυστῷ πλουσιώτατος. εἴ ποτε οὖν ἐθαύμαζόν τινα οἱ Καρύστιοι ἐπὶ πλούτῳ ὑπερβολικῶς, ἔλεγον ὑπὲρ τὰ Καλλικράτους. Ἀριστοτέλης δέ φησιν ἐν τῇ Ἀθηναίων πολιτείᾳ Καλλικράτην τινὰ πρῶτον τοὺς δικαστικοὺς μύθους εἰς ὑπερβολὴν αὐξῆσαι. ὅθεν καὶ τὴν παροιμίαν εἰρῆσθαι.
Betacode
*(upe\r ta\ *kallikra/tous: fhsi\ *kle/arxos, o(/ti *kallikra/ths tis e)ge/neto e)n *karustw=| plousiw/tatos. ei)/ pote ou)=n e)qau/mazo/n tina oi( *karu/stioi e)pi\ plou/tw| u(perbolikw=s, e)/legon u(pe\r ta\ *kallikra/tous. *)aristote/lhs de/ fhsin e)n th=| *)aqhnai/wn politei/a| *kallikra/thn tina\ prw=ton tou\s dikastikou\s mu/qous ei)s u(perbolh\n au)ch=sai. o(/qen kai\ th\n paroimi/an ei)rh=sqai.
Notes (4)
- Likewise in Photius, Lexicon upsilon137 Theodoridis, from Pausanias the Atticist; and cf. Zenobius 6.29 and other paroemiographers.
- 1Klearchos of Soloi [in brief kappa 1714] fr. 77 Wehrli. ↩
- 2A city at the southern tip of the Greek island of Euboia. ↩
- 3The transmitted text (which Adler prints) has
dikastikou\s mu/qous , "jury stories", but for sense one should obviously follow Kuster in readingmisqou/s (from Zenobius 6.29). ↩ - 4The passage in question is ?Aristotle, Athenaion Politeia 28.3, though it does not warrant this summary. It says, rather, that in the latter part of the C5 BCE Kallikrates of Paiania -- otherwise unknown, but clearly an Athenian, unlike Kallikrates of Karystos -- promised to increase the (mysterious) diobelia payments in Athens from two obols to three but then, on the contrary, abolished them (and was eventually executed). ↩
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