Quotes Suitable for Framing: Archilochus
Donald R. McClarey
Cradle Catholic. Active in the pro-life movement since 1973. Father of three, one in Heaven, and happily married for 41 years. Small town lawyer and amateur historian. Former president of the board of directors of the local crisis pregnancy center for a decade.
And I had always thought this was due to Isaiah Berlin! Thanks Don.
Yeah Bob, Isaiah Berlin popularized it, although Erasmus wrote a bit about it. Ironically, since this is a fragment, we can’t be sure what the Greek poet was driving at.
I wonder if the ‘thing(s)’ are referring to prey, meaning the fox finds prey and the hedgehog is prey. Saw the movie “Born Free” aired this week; a hedgehog was the first meal in the wild for Elsa as she was being returned to her natural habitat. She just had to run to catch it. Archilochus may have been typing people – but I don’t know whether a hedgehog is carnivorous.
The fox knows many things, for to survive has has to know the different tactics of his prey, to avoid him.
The hedgehog simply knows the big one – how to survive against a predator..
PM. Hedgehogs live mainly on snails, slugs and other insect pests – that’s why gardeners like to have hedgehogs around their gardens.
“The fox knows many things, for to survive has has to know the different tactics of his prey, to avoid him.
The hedgehog simply knows the big one – how to survive against a predator.”
That occurred to me last night Don! The Greek poet, who was not in the heroic mode, occasionally wrote about war, so I think your conclusion is probably what he was referring to.