Ἀριστώνυμος
Aristonymos, Aristonymus
Translated by Jennifer Benedict31 Jul 2001Vetting: high8 revisions
Translation
A comic poet.1 [One] of his plays is the Shivering Sun, as Athenaeus [notes] in Deipnosophists.2
[He lived] while Ptolemy Philadelphos was ruling, and [during] Philopator after him;3 and he managed the library of the king after Apollonius4, when he was 62. Having been prepared to consider fleeing to Eumenes,5 he was guarded in prison for some time. He was released and died of strangury,6 having lived for 77 years. His writings [were] very many.
[He lived] while Ptolemy Philadelphos was ruling, and [during] Philopator after him;3 and he managed the library of the king after Apollonius4, when he was 62. Having been prepared to consider fleeing to Eumenes,5 he was guarded in prison for some time. He was released and died of strangury,6 having lived for 77 years. His writings [were] very many.