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Headword: Λάθε βιώσας
Adler number: lambda,41
Translated headword: live in seclusion, live unnoticed, live unobtrusively
Vetting Status: low
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:
Λάθε βιώσας: τοῦ τε ἐν παροιμίᾳ λέγεσθαι εἰωθότος, ἔργῳ βεβαιωθέντος ὑπ' ἐκείνου, τοῦ λάθε βιώσας: ὥστε οὐδένα τῶν τότε ζώντων ἀνθρώπων οὔτε τῶν πρεσβυτέρων ἐλπίσαιμ' ἂν εἰδέναι οἷον λέγω.
Note:
Damascius, Life of Isidore fr.34 Zintzen (22 Asmus); given more fully at sigma 116. For the proverb see also nu 192.
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.
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