# Fragmenta 20

Hippias, Fragmenta, Fragment 20. Ancient Greek.

Canonical: https://interlinea.aeterna-institute.org/library/greek/hippias-soph/fragmenta-2/20

20. ARIST. poet. 25. 1461ᵃ 21 κατὰ δὲ προσωιδίαν [näml. ὁρῶντα δεῖ διαλύειν] ὥσπερ Ἱ. ἔλυεν ὁ Θάσιος τὸ δίδομεν δέ οἱ’ καὶ τὸ μὲν οὗ καταπύθεται ὄμβρωι’. soph. el. 4. 166ᵇ 1 παρὰ δὲ τὴν προσωιδίαν ἐν μὲν τοῖς ἄνευ γραφῆς διαλεκτικοῖς οὐ ῥάιδιον ποιῆσαι λόγον, ἐν δὲ τοῖς γεγραμμένοις καὶ ποιήμασι μᾶλλον, οἶον καὶ τὸν Ὅμηρον ἔνιοι διορθοῦνται πρὸς τοὺς ἐλέγχοντας ὡς ἀτόπως εἰρηκότα τὸ μὲν οὐ καταπύθεται ὄμβρωι [Ψ 328]. λύουσι γὰρ αὐτὸ τῆι προσωιδίαι λέγοντες τὸ ο̄ῡ ὀξύτερον· καὶ τὸ περὶ τὸ ἐνύπνιον τοῦ Ἀγαμέμνονος, ὅτι οὐκ αὐτὸς ὁ Ζεὺς εἶπεν δίδομεν δέ οἱ εὖχος ἀρέσθαι’ [Β 15], ἀλλὰ τῶι ἐνυπνίωι ἐνετέλλετο διδόναι.

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Hippias of Elis, Fragmenta, ed. Hermann Diels. Text: The Greek Library, from the Perseus Digital Library and other open sources, CC BY-SA 4.0. Changes: apostrophes normalised and the text divided into reading sections by Interlinea.
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