SISYPHUS

SISYPHUS
SISYPHUS
Aeoli fil. qui icum Atticam latrociniis infestaret (unde Ovid. Met. l. 13. v. 32.
Quid sanguine cretus
Sisyphio, furtisque et fraude simillimus illi.)
a Theseo occisus est. Hunc Poetae fabulantur eô supplicii genere apud inferos plecti, ut saxum ingens in montis cuiusdam verticem cogatur provolvere; quod cum ad summum pene extulerit, repente deorsum relabitur. Vetus Poeta apud Cicer. l. 1. Tusc. Qu. c. 5.
---- Sisyphu' versat
Saxum sudans nitendo, neque proficit hilum.
Ovid. Met. l. 13. v. 26.
Ubi Aeoliden saxum grave Sisdyphon urget.
Idem l. 4. Met. v. 459.
Aut petis, aut urges rediturum, Sisyphe, saxum.
Huc allusit Virg. Aen. l. 6. v. 616.
Saxum ingens volvunt alii. -----
Propert. l. 2. el. 17. v. 7.
vel tu Sisyphios licet admirêre labores.
Idem eleg. 20. eiusdem libri, v. 32.
Tum quoque Sisyphiô saxa labore geram.
Horat. Od. 14. l. 2. v. 20.
----- Damnatusque longi
Sisyphus Aeolides laboris.
Vide Pausan. in Corinthiacis. Apollod. l. 1. Hygin. Fab. 60. Martial. l. 10. Epigr. 5. v. 15.
Nunc inquieti monte Sisyphi pressus
Seneca Tragoedus in Hercule Insano, v. 751.
Cervice saxum grande Sisyphiâ sedit.
Idem in Hippolyto, Actu 5. v. 1229.
Umbrae nocentes cedite; et cervicibus
His, his repositum degravet fessas manus
Saxum, sent perennis Aeolio labor.
Homer. Od. λ. v. 592.
Καὶ μὲν Σίσυφον εἰσεῖδον κράτεῤ ἄλγἐ ἔχοντα,
Λᾶαν βαςτάζοντα πελώριον ἀμφοτέρῃσιν.
Η῎τοι ὁ μὲν, σκηριπτόμενος χερσίν τε, ποσίν τε,
Λᾶαν ἀνω ὤθεσκε ποτὶ λόφον, ἀλλ᾿ ὅτι μέλλοι
Α῎κρον ὑπερβαλέειν, τότ᾿ ἀπιςτρέψασκε κραταίϊς
Αὖτις, ἔπειτα πέδον δὲ κυλίνδετο λᾶας ἀναιδής.
Scientiam Sisyphi, sive potius astutiam indicant Homer et Theognis: Hic Il. ζ. v. 153.
Ε῎νθα δὲ Σίσυφος ἔσκεν, ὁ κέρδιςτος γένετ᾿ ἀνδρῶν,
Σίσυφος Α᾿ιολίδης, ὀ δ᾿ ἄρα Γλαῦκον τέκεθ᾿ μ῾όν.
Ille v. 700.
Ο᾿υδ᾿ εἰ σωφροσύνην μὲν ἔχοις Ῥαδαμάνθυος αὐτοῦ,
Πλείονα δ᾿ εἰδείης Αἰολίδου Σισύφου,
Ὁ῞ςτε καὶ ἐξ ἀϊδεω πολυϊδρίῃσιν ἀνῆλθε,
ΠείϚας ΠερϚεφόνην αἱμυλίοισι λόγοις,
Η῞τε βροτοῖς παρέχει λήθην, βλάπτουϚα νόημα.
Α῎λλος δ᾿ οὔπω τις τοῦτὀ γ᾿ ἐπεφραϚατο,
Ο῞ντινα δή θανάτοιο μέλαν νέφος ἀμφικαλύψοι,
Ε῎λθοι δ᾿ εἰς κρυερὸν χῶρον ἀποφθιμένων.
Κυανέας τε πύλας παραμείψεται, ἁίτε θανόντων
Ψοχὰς ἐίργουσιν, καίπερ ἀναινομένας.
Α᾿λλ᾿ ἀρἀ κἀκεῖθεν Σίσυφος πάλιν ἤλυθεν ἥρως
Ε᾿ς φάος῾ ἠελίου σφῇσι πολυφροτύναις.)
Mythologiam Sisyphi habes apud Natal. Com. l. 6. c. 17. Lucretius vero l. 3. v. 1009 in eos hanc fabulam convenire scribit, qui magistratus et honores a populo expetunt cum summa animi contentione; neque unquam obtinere poslunt, vel quod indigni habeantur, vel quod in hoc etiam maxima vis sit fortunae. Sic enim ait Epicureus Poeta,
Sisyphus in vita quoque nohis ante oculos est,
Qui petere a populo fasces, saevasque secures
Imbibit, et semper victus tristisque recedit.
Nam petere imperium, quod mancum est, nec datur unquam,
Atque in eo semper durum sufferre laborem;
Hoc est adversô nixantem trudere monte
Saxum, quod tamen a summo iam vertice rursum
Volvitur, et plani roptim petit aequora campi.
Fuit autem iuxta Historiam Sisyphus, primus Corinthi Rex; condidit eam vel saltem colonis instruxit Ephyram prius dictam, A. M. 2643. ubi successores eius regnârunt, an. 308. ab Heraclidis pulsi, An. 2951. Euseb. in Chron. Alii paulo aliter.

Hofmann J. Lexicon universale. 1698.

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