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Dolus (mythology)

To Do

• Oxford Classical Dictionary
• Tripp
• Grimal
• Parada
• Smith
• Gantz
• Hard
• Fowler
• Brill's New Pauly
• Loeb search
• LIMC

Sources

• Perry, pp. 376, 377
• Gibbs 530 [= Perry 535]
• Gibbs Aesopica website

Ancient

Cicero

De Natura Deorum 3.44

Caeli quoque parentes di habendi sunt, Aether et Dies eorumque fratres et sorores, qui a genealogis antiquis sic nominantur, Amor Dolus ...

the parents of Caelus, the Aether and the Day, must be held to be gods, and their brothers and sisters, whom the ancient genealogists name Love, Guile,

Hyginus

Preface, 3.1

Ex Aethere et Terra Dolor Dolus ...

Aether and Earth: Dolor, Deceit (Dolus), ... (Grant)

From Ether and Earth came Pain, Deception, ... (Smith and Trzaskoma)

Phaedrus

Prometheus and Guile

On Truth and Falsehood

Once Prometheus, the moulder of a new generation, had shaped the figure of Truth with exquisite care, that she might duly award men their rights. When suddenly called away by the messenger of mighty Jove, he entrusted his workshop to the care of treacherous Guile, whom he had only recently taken into apprenticeship. The latter, inspired by rivalry, proceeded to fashion with cunning hand, while he still had time, an image of like appearance, of the same size, and similar in every limb. When this image was in place, almost all admirably wrought, he ran out of clay with which to make the feet. The master returned and Guile, in hasty fear and confusion, sat down in his own place. Prometheus marvelled at the great likeness of the image and hose to make it appear that his own skill deserved the credit. Accordingly, he put the two statues into the oven; and when they had been thoroughly baked and the breath of life had been poured into them sacred Truth advanced with decorous gait, but her abbreviated likeness stood fixed in her tracks. Thereupon the spurious image, which was, moreover, the handiwork of stealth, was called Falsehood; and when people declare that she has no feet I readily agree with them.

Now and then counterfeits bring men profit at the start, but in the long run the truth itself comes to light.