Note 696 — Chapter V · Lydia
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Ap. Aristot. Rhet. III. 17 and Plut. De Tranqu. An. 10 (Mor. 470c). The two lines quoted above were not consecutive. Plutarch quotes them thus:
οὔ μοι τὰ Γύγεω τοῦ πολυχρύσου μέλει
καὶ οὐδ’ εἷλέ πω με ζῆλος, οὐδ’ ἀγαίομαι
θεῶν ἔργα, μεγάλης δ’ οὐκ ἐρέω τυραννίδος.
But the καὶ appears to connect two extracts from a single passage. Aristotle, who quotes only οὔ μοι τὰ Γύγεω, states that the passage was put by Archilochus into the mouth of Charon the carpenter (τέκτων).