Ἀκουσίλαος
Akousilaos, Akusilaos, Acusilaus
Translated by Joseph L. Rife11 Feb 2000Vetting: high9 revisions
Translation
Greek original · Adler’s text
Ἀκουσίλαος· Κάβα υἱὸς, Ἀργεῖος, ἀπὸ Κερκάδος πόλεως, οὔσης Αὐλίδος πλησίον· ἱστορικὸς πρεσβύτατος. ἔγραψε δὲ γενεαλογίας ἐκ δέλτων χαλκῶν, ἃς λόγος εὑρεῖν τὸν πατέρα αὐτοῦ ὀρύξαντά τινα τόπον τῆς οἰκίας αὐτοῦ.
Betacode
*)akousi/laos: *ka/ba ui(o\s, *)argei=os, a)po\ *kerka/dos po/lews, ou)/shs *au)li/dos plhsi/on: i(storiko\s presbu/tatos. e)/graye de\ genealogi/as e)k de/ltwn xalkw=n, a(\s lo/gos eu(rei=n to\n pate/ra au)tou= o)ru/canta/ tina to/pon th=s oi)ki/as au)tou=.
Notes (2)
- OCD(4) p.11; FGrH 2.
- 1On Kerkas see M. Pierart in M.H. Hansen and T.H.Nielsen (eds.), An Inventory of Archaic and Classical Poleis (Oxford 2004) 601. ↩
- 2"Shortly before the Persian Wars", according to Josephus, Against Apion 1.13 (= FGrH 2 T3); that is, early fifth century BCE. (The designation
presbu/tatos , however, may carry overtones of distinction at least as much as of age: witness the remark attributed to Sophocles in Plutarch, Nikias 15.) ↩
References
Der Neue Pauly s.v Akusilaos.
C.W. Fornara, The Nature of History in Ancient Greece and Rome (Berkeley & Los Angeles 1983) 4
C.W. Fornara, The Nature of History in Ancient Greece and Rome (Berkeley & Los Angeles 1983) 4
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