Zenobius 5.31

Hippocleides doesn't care

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English

Proverb

Explanation

Hippocleides, with many others, sought as bride the daughter of Cleisthenes the Sicyonian. Cleisthenes was testing the suitors over a whole year, when Hippocleides, at a banquet, having stood on his head, twirled his feet up in the air. Cleisthenes said: "You have danced away your marriage." And Hippocleides said: "Hippocleides doesn't care."

Greek

Proverb

Οὐ φροντὶς Ἱπποκλείδῃ

Explanation

Ἐπποκλείδης μετὰ καὶ ἄλλων πολλῶν ἐμνηστεύσατο τὴν Κλεισθένους τοῦ Σικυωνίου θυγατέρα. Τοῦ δὲ Κλεισθένους ἐν ἐνιαυτῷ ὅλῳ δοκιμάζοντος τοὺς μνηστῆρας, ὁ Ἱπποκλείδης ἐν συμποσίῳ ἐπὶ κεφαλὴν κυβιστήσας, ἄνω περιῆγε τοὺς πόδας. Τοῦ δὲ Κλεισθένους εἰπόντος, Ἐξωρχήσω τὸν γάμον· ὁ Ἱπποκλείδης ἔφη, Οὐ φροντὶς Ἱπποκλείδῃ.

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