Ἀριστείδης
Aristeides, Aristides, Aelius Aristides
Translated by Malcolm Heath12 Jun 2000Vetting: high8 revisions
Translation
Of Hadriani. Sophist.1 (Hadriani is a city in Mysia, now Bithynia.) Pupil of the rhetor Polemo of Smyrna.2 Son of Eudaemon, who was a philosopher and priest in the temple of Zeus in his native city. Others write that his father was Eudaemon.3 He attended Herodes' classes in Athens,4 and those of Aristocles in Pergamum.5 He lived under Antoninus Caesar, and survived until Commodus. As for his speeches, one would not find an end to them anywhere, and they are in different ways and in different respects successful.6
Greek original · Adler’s text
Ἀριστείδης, Ἀδριανεὺς, σοφιστής [Ἀδριανοὶ δὲ πόλις Μυσίας, τῆς νῦν Βιθυνίασ], Πολέμωνος τοῦ Σμυρναίου ῥήτορος μαθητὴς, υἱὸς Εὐδαίμονος, φιλοσόφου τε καὶ ἱερέως γενομένου τοῦ ἐν τῇ πατρίδι αὐτοῦ ἱεροῦ τοῦ Διός. οἱ δὲ Εὐδαίμονα τὸν πατέρα αὐτοῦ γράφουσιν. ἠκροάσατο δὲ Ἡρώδου κατὰ τὰς Ἀθήνας καὶ ἐν Περγάμῳ Ἀριστοκλέους, γεγονὼς ἐπί τε Ἀντωνίνου τοῦ Καίσαρος καὶ διατείνας μέχρι Κομόδου. τῶν δὲ λόγων αὐτοῦ παρ' οὐδενὶ πέρας εὕροι τις ἂν, ἄλλως δὲ ἄλλοις ἐπιτευχθέντας.
Betacode
*)aristei/dhs, *)adrianeu\s, sofisth/s [*)adrianoi\ de\ po/lis *musi/as, th=s nu=n *biquni/as], *pole/mwnos tou= *smurnai/ou r(h/toros maqhth\s, ui(o\s *eu)dai/monos, filoso/fou te kai\ i(ere/ws genome/nou tou= e)n th=| patri/di au)tou= i(erou= tou= *dio/s. oi( de\ *eu)dai/mona to\n pate/ra au)tou= gra/fousin. h)kroa/sato de\ *(hrw/dou kata\ ta\s *)aqh/nas kai\ e)n *perga/mw| *)aristokle/ous, gegonw\s e)pi/ te *)antwni/nou tou= *kai/saros kai\ diatei/nas me/xri *komo/dou. tw=n de\ lo/gwn au)tou= par' ou)deni\ pe/ras eu(/roi tis a)\n, a)/llws de\ a)/llois e)piteuxqe/ntas.
Notes (6)
- On the sources of this entry see Behr (1968) 146-147; Behr (1994) 1151 n.42.↩
- 1RE Aristeides(24); NP Aristeides(3); OCD4 Aristides, Publius Aelius; PIR2 A 145; Philostratus, Lives of the Sophists 2.9. ↩
- 2[pi 1889] Polemo. ↩
- 3This obscure sentence perhaps arises from a confused memory of Philostratus' pun: 'Aristides, either the son of Eudaemon [Eudaimonos] or himself fortunate [eudaimona].' In any event, Adler (addenda) notes Masson's proposed emendation of
to\n pate/ra au)tou= toou) to\n pate/ra a)ll' au)to/n . ↩- 4[eta 545] Herodes. ↩
- 5[alpha 3918] Aristocles. ↩
- 6The sense of the last sentence is obscure; the text may be corrupt.
References
C.A. Behr Aelius Aristides and the Sacred Tales (Amsterdam 1968).
C.A. Behr 'Studies in the biography of Aelius Aristides' ANRW II 34.2 (1994) 1140-1233.
C.A. Behr 'Studies in the biography of Aelius Aristides' ANRW II 34.2 (1994) 1140-1233.
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