Friday, January 27, 2023
Do Not Disturb
Isocrates, fragment 38, in Isocrate, edd. Georges Mathieu and Émile Brémond, Tome IV (Paris, 1962), p. 239 (my translation):
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One shouldn't stir up muddy water and an uneducated mind.I don't see the fragment in B.G. Mandilaras' Teubner edition of Isocrates. The source for Mathieu and Brémond is Johannes Georgides, Gnomologium, in J. Fr. Boissonade, Anecdota Graeca e Codicibus Regiis, Vol. I (Paris, In Regio Typographeo, 1829), pp. 1-108 (at 93). I don't have access to Paolo Odorico, ed., Il prato e l'ape. Il sapere sentenzioso del monaco Giovanni (Vienna: Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenchaften, 1986 = Wiener byzantinische Studien, 17). The sentence also occurs in Heinrich Schenkl, "Das Florilegium Ἄριστον καὶ πρῶτον μάθημα," Wiener Studien 11.1 (1889) 1-42 (at 35, number 132).
ὕδωρ θολερὸν καὶ ἀπαίδευτον ψυχὴν οὐ δεῖ ταράττειν.
