Λέων

Leon

Translated by Malcolm Heath28 Aug 2003Vetting: high5 revisions

3 notes · 26 words
of Alabanda.1 Rhetor. He wrote On Caria (4 books); On Lycia (in 2 books); an Art;2 On Issues; The Sacred War between the Phocians and Boeotians.3

Greek original · Adler’s text

Λέων, Ἀλαβανδεύς, ῥήτωρ. ἔγραψε Καρικῶν βιβλία δʹ, Λυκιακὰ ἐν βιβλίοις βʹ, Τέχνην, Περὶ στάσεων, Τὸν ἱερὸν πόλεμον Φωκέων καὶ Βοιωτῶν.

Betacode
*le/wn, *)alabandeu/s, r(h/twr. e)/graye *karikw=n bibli/a d#, *lukiaka\ e)n bibli/ois b#, *te/xnhn, *peri\ sta/sewn, *to\n i(ero\n po/lemon *fwke/wn kai\ *boiwtw=n.

Notes (3)

  1. Between C2 BC and AD C2; FGrH 278.
  2. 1In Caria; see generally OCD(4) s.v. ↩
  3. 2i.e. Art of Rhetoric. ↩
  4. 3The history of the (sc. Third) Sacred War, 357-346 BC, is also and more plausibly attributed to Leon of Byzantium (lambda 265). For Sacred Wars, declared by the Delphic Amphictiony against states allegedly guilty of sacrilege against Apollo, see OCD(4) s.v. ↩

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Revision history5 revisions · last 5 Aug 2014
  1. Revised — David Whitehead
  2. Revised — David Whitehead
  3. Revised — David Whitehead
  4. modified and augmented notes; added two keywords — David Whitehead
  5. Cosmetics, set status — William Hutton
  6. Translated — Malcolm Heath

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