"A man, when he gets drunk, is led by a beardless lad, tripping, knowing not where he steps, having his soul moist."
— Heraklitus (fl. 504-1 BCE)
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Date
c. 501 B.C.
Metaphor
"A man, when he gets drunk, is led by a beardless lad, tripping, knowing not where he steps, having his soul moist."
Metaphor in Context
ανὴρ ὁκόταν μεθυσθῇ, ἄγεται ὑπὸ παιδὸς ἀνήβου σφαλλόμενος, οὐκ ἐπαΐων ὅκη βαίνει, ὑγρὴν τὴν ψυχὴν ἔχων
[A man, when he gets drunk, is led by a beardless lad, tripping, knowing not where he steps, having his soul moist.]
(DK B117)
[A man, when he gets drunk, is led by a beardless lad, tripping, knowing not where he steps, having his soul moist.]
(DK B117)
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Provenance
Browsing Randy Hoyt's website, from which the unicode Greek is drawn.
Citation
Heraclitus, Fragments Trans T. M. Robinson (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1987).
The ancient Greek was encoded by Randy Hoyt, working from Perseus Digital Library and Hermann Diels' Die Fragmente der Vorsokratiker, ed. Walther Kranz (Berlin, 1951). <Link to www.heraclitusfragments.com>
The ancient Greek was encoded by Randy Hoyt, working from Perseus Digital Library and Hermann Diels' Die Fragmente der Vorsokratiker, ed. Walther Kranz (Berlin, 1951). <Link to www.heraclitusfragments.com>
Date of Entry
05/17/2011
