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Headword:
Πάγας
Adler number: pi,3
Translated headword: snares
Vetting Status: high
Translation: Nets, traps.[1]
"And indeed this [happened] in accordance with the saying of
Aeschylus; falling by [arrows fledged with] his own feathers and caught by the snares which he wove for others, he justly suffered the penalty of the law."[2] "Like one who prepares [evil] for another, he prepares evil for his own heart [lit. 'liver']."[3]
Πάγας: δίκτυα, παγίδας. καὶ τοῦτο δήπου τὸ τοῦ Αἰσχύλου, τοῖς ἑαυτοῦ πτεροῖς περιπεσὼν καὶ ἐνσχεθεὶς ταῖς πάγαις ἃς ἄλλοις ὑφῆκε, τὰ ἐκ τοῦ νόμου δικαίως ἔπαθε. τεύχων ὡς ἑτέρῳ τις, ἑῷ κακὸν ἥπατι τεύχει.
Notes:
[1] The headword, accusative plural, has the same glosses in other lexica; it is evidently extracted from somewhere. The remainder of the entry illustrates sayings (the first of them involving the dative plural of the headword) of the "hoist by his own petard" type.
[1]
Aelian fr.22 Hercher (on an Athenian politician who fell foul of his own law - see
gamma 392, repeated under
delta 1188, and cf.
pi 2493,
omega 293);
Aeschylus fr.139.4 Radt.
[2]
Callimachus,
Aetia fr.2, line 5 (from
Eustathius Commentary on the Iliad 522.15). Part of the same fragment-cluster in Hercher, but also quoted by
Aelian elsewhere:
Varia historia 8.9.
Translated by: Catharine Roth on 4 January 2003@00:31:14.
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