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Headword: Lathe biôsas
Adler number: lambda,41
Translated headword: live in seclusion; live unnoticed; live unobtrusively
Vetting Status: high
Translation:
"[...] of what is customarily said in a proverb, but enforced by him in deed, 'live in seclusion': so that I would not expect any of the men living at that time, [of the younger] or of the older, to understand what I mean."
Greek Original:
Lathe biôsas: tou te en paroimiai legesthai eiôthotos, ergôi bebaiôthentos hup' ekeinou, tou lathe biôsas: hôste oudena tôn tote zôntôn anthrôpôn oute tôn presbuterôn elpisaim' an eidenai hoion legô.
Notes:
Damascius, Life of Isidore fr. 34 Zintzen (22 Asmus); given more fully at sigma 116.
For the proverb see also nu 192, and generally Tosi [see under alpha 378] no.244.
Reference:
Geert Roskam, Live unnoticed (Lathe biosas): on the vicissitudes of an Epicurean doctrine (Leiden 2007)
Keywords: biography; chronology; daily life; ethics; philosophy; proverbs
Translated by: Catharine Roth on 6 July 2004@01:20:33.
Vetted by:
David Whitehead (augmented and rearranged notes; more keywords) on 6 July 2004@03:38:15.
Catharine Roth (supplemented translation) on 6 July 2004@11:44:33.
David Whitehead (expanded headword; more keywords; added bibliography) on 4 May 2008@04:29:55.
David Whitehead (expanded note) on 14 August 2012@10:08:20.
David Whitehead on 27 March 2013@06:20:22.
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