Monday, January 09, 2023
By Their Fruits
Diogenianus, Proverbs 5.15, tr. Marinos Yeroulanos, A Dictionary of Classical Greek Quotations (London: I.B. Tauris, 2016), p. 533:
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Know the tree by its seed.καρπός can mean seed (Liddell-Scott-Jones, sense I.2), but usually it's fruit, and I would translate "Know the tree by its fruit," or, more literally, "The tree from the fruit."
ἐκ τοῦ καρποῦ τὸ δένδρον.
