Εὔηνος

Euenos, Euenus

Translated by David Whitehead21 Nov 2000Vetting: high4 revisions

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They record that two poets [of this name] wrote elegies, both of them Parians.

Greek original · Adler’s text

Εὔηνος· δύο ἀναγράφουσι γεγράφθαι ἐλεγείων ποιητάς, καὶ ἀμφοτέρους Παρίους.

Betacode

*eu)/hnos: du/o a)nagra/fousi gegra/fqai e)legei/wn poihta/s, kai\ a)mfote/rous *pari/ous.

Abridged from Harpokration s.v., commenting on Hyperides fr. 58 Jensen.
"Euenus, of Paros (5th cent. BC), rhetorician and sophist, wrote some elegiac and other verse, of which fragments survive; to be distinguished from two (?) homonymous later epigrammatists" (M.L. West in OCD(4) s.v., p.546).