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Ἀριστοφάνης · Aristophanes (α 3933) · Suda

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α3929Aristoteles, Aristotle
α3930Aristotle, Aristoteles
α3931bearing the best children
α3932Aristophanes
α3933Aristophanes
α3934best-handed, valor-won
α3935Ariston, Aristo
α3936Aristonymos, Aristonymus
α3937Aristratus, Aristratos

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Ἀριστοφάνης

Aristophanes

Translated by Ross Scaife ✝8 May 2002Vetting: high6 revisions

biography
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5 notes · 49 words

Translation

Of Byzantium↗, a grammarian, son of Apelles a troop-commander, student of Kallimakhos¹ and of Zenodotos,² the former as a young man, the latter as a boy; and in addition to these [he also studied under] Dionysios Iambos³ and Euphronidas of Korinth or Sikyon↗.⁴ He flourished in the 144th Olympiad.⁵

Greek original · Adler’s text

Ἀριστοφάνης, Βυζάντιος, γραμματικός, υἱὸς Ἀπελλοῦ ἡγουμένου στρατιωτῶν, μαθητὴς Καλλιμάχου καὶ Ζηνοδότου· ἀλλὰ τοῦ μὲν νέος, τοῦ δὲ παῖς ἤκουσε· πρὸς δὲ τούτοις καὶ Διονυσίου τοῦ Ἰάμβου καὶ Εὐφρονίδα τοῦ Κορινθίου ἢ Σικυωνίου. γέγονε δὲ κατὰ τὴν ρμδʹ Ὀλυμπιάδα.

Betacode

*)aristofa/nhs, *buza/ntios, grammatiko/s, ui(o\s *)apellou= h(goume/nou stratiwtw=n, maqhth\s *kallima/xou kai\ *zhnodo/tou: a)lla\ tou= me\n ne/os, tou= de\ pai=s h)/kouse: pro\s de\ tou/tois kai\ *dionusi/ou tou= *)ia/mbou kai\ *eu)froni/da tou= *korinqi/ou h)\ *sikuwni/ou. ge/gone de\ kata\ th\n rmd# *)olumpia/da.

Notes (5)

Probably c.257-180 (though see Pfeiffer 172).
RE Aristophanes(14); NP Aristophanes(4); OCD4 Aristophanes(2); FGrH 347.
1kappa 227. ↩
2zeta 74. ↩
3RE Dionysios(93); NP Dionysios(15). ↩
4Otherwise unattested. ↩
5204-201.
[Original translation and notes by Malcom Heath; this entry had dropped out of the database: ARS]

References

R. Pfeiffer, History of Classical Scholarship, i (Oxford 1968) chap.5.

Linked from3 entries

α3892ἈρίσταρχοςAristarchus, Aristarchos, AristarkhosOf Alexandria by adoption, although he was born in Samothrace. His father was Aristarchus. He lived in the 156th Olympiad, under Ptolemy Philometor, to whose son he was also tutor. He is said to have written more than…
α3936ἈριστώνυμοςAristonymos, AristonymusA comic poet. [One] of his plays is the Shivering Sun, as Athenaeus [notes] in Deipnosophists. [He lived] while Ptolemy Philadelphos was ruling, and [during] Philopator after him; and he managed the library of the king…
δ231Δεξιὸν εἰς ὑπόδημα ἀριστερὸν εἰς ποδονίπτρανright (foot) into a sandal (but) left into a foot-bathAristophanes [sc. wrote this]; in reference to those who use things fittingly.

Neighbouring entries

α3931Ἀριστοτόκειαbearing the best children α3932ἈριστοφάνηςAristophanes α3933ἈριστοφάνηςAristophanes α3934Ἀριστόχειρbest-handed, valor-won α3935ἈρίστωνAriston, Aristo

Revision history6 revisions · last 30 Jul 2014

30 Jul 2014updated a ref — David Whitehead
12 Apr 2012another keyword; tweaking — David Whitehead
10 May 2010added italics — Catharine Roth
9 May 2002added note, bibliography, keywords; cosmetics — David Whitehead
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8 May 2002Translated — Ross Scaife ✝

Cite this entry

Suda On Line, s.v. Ἀριστοφάνης (Adler number alpha 3933), trans. Ross Scaife ✝, 8 May 2002. https://www.cs.uky.edu/~raphael/sol/sol-entries/alpha/3933

Translation by Ross Scaife ✝ for Suda On Line, revised by David Whitehead, Catharine Roth, , licensed CC BY-NC-SA 4.0. Shown unchanged, under the same licence, non-commercially. Original on SOL ↗