ὄφιν ἐν τῷ κόλπῳ τρέφειν
Posted: April 25th, 2019, 5:31 pm
Does anyone recognize this quote?
Where is it from?ὄφιν ἐν τῷ κόλπῳ τρέφειν
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Where is it from?ὄφιν ἐν τῷ κόλπῳ τρέφειν
Could it have been back-translated from a proverb found in that text?Compare the Roman proverb, 'you're nurturing a snake in your bosom' (Petronius, Satyricon 77).
Orestes
Did you learn what the dream was, so as to be able to tell it accurately?
Chorus
As she herself says, she imagined she gave birth to a snake—
Orestes
That vision is not likely to have come for nothing!
Chorus
– and nestled it in swaddling-clothes, like a baby.
Orestes
What food did it want, this deadly new-born creature?
Chorus
In her dream, she herself offered her breast to it.
Orestes
Then surely her teat was wounded by the loathsome beast?
Chorus
So that in her milk it drew off a clot of blood.
Orestes
And where does the story reach its end and culmination?
I think that's possible. The Latin Tu viperam sub ala nutricas could certainly be so rendered. Cicero has this marvelous line:Jonathan Robie wrote: ↑April 26th, 2019, 7:20 am I didn't see anything close enough in the Fable itself.
But it seems to have a moral similar to a Latin text:
Could it have been back-translated from a proverb found in that text?Compare the Roman proverb, 'you're nurturing a snake in your bosom' (Petronius, Satyricon 77).