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A saying of Chilon.[1] The proverb is applied to those whose boasts exceed what they are.[2]

Gnôthi sauton: apophthegma Chilônos. tattetai de hê paroimia epi tôn huper ho eisi kompazontôn.

Philebus 48C, where the saying appears, as being from

[1] An early Spartan sage renowned for pithy remarks: see

[2] cf. From a scholion on Plato 48C, where the saying appears, as being from Delphi (web address 1); for this cf. gamma 334 [1] An early Spartan sage renowned for pithy remarks: see chi 311 [2] cf. Diogenianus 2.10 and other paroemiographers; Tosi (cited under alpha 378 ) no.1992.

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