You keep quiet and don't speak too impetuously;λαβροστόμει is a hapax legomenon. Joseph Edward Harry ad loc.:
or do you not know very well, exceptionally intelligent as you
are, that foolish words lead to punishment being inflicted?
σὺ δ᾿ ἡσύχαζε μηδ᾿ ἄγαν λαβροστόμει.
ἢ οὐκ οἶσθ᾿ ἀκριβῶς, ὢν περισσόφρων, ὅτι
γλώσσῃ ματαίᾳ ζημία προστρίβεται;
"A peculiar anthologic maze, an amusing literary chaos, a farrago of quotations, a mere olla podrida of quaintness, a pot pourri of pleasant delites, a florilegium of elegant extracts, a tangled fardel of old-world flowers of thought, a faggot of odd fancies, quips, facetiae, loosely tied" (Holbrook Jackson, Anatomy of Bibliomania) by a "laudator temporis acti," a "praiser of time past" (Horace, Ars Poetica 173).
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Thursday, December 26, 2024
Advice
Aeschylus, Prometheus Bound 327-329 (Oceanus to Prometheus; tr. Alan H. Sommerstein):
