Μάναιχμος

Menaichmos, Menaechmus, Manaichmos

Translated by David Whitehead19 Sep 2001Vetting: high4 revisions

3 notes · 28 words

Translation

Of Sikyon,1 son of Alkibios or Alkibiades; historian. He lived under the Successors [of Alexander the Great]. He wrote a history of what happened2 under Alexander the Macedonian.3

Greek original · Adler’s text

Μάναιχμος, Σικυώνιος, υἱὸς Ἀλκιβίου ἢ Ἀλκιβιάδου, ἱστορικός· γέγονε δὲ ἐπὶ τῶν διαδόχων. ἔγραψεν ἱστορίαν τὴν κατὰ τὸν Μακεδόνα Ἀλέξανδρον.

Betacode
*ma/naixmos, *sikuw/nios, ui(o\s *)alkibi/ou h)\ *)alkibia/dou, i(storiko/s: ge/gone de\ e)pi\ tw=n diado/xwn. e)/grayen i(stori/an th\n kata\ to\n *makedo/na *)ale/candron. 

Notes (3)

  1. Late C4 BCE. See generally OCD(4) p.929, under Menaechmus(1); FGrH 131. NB: the Suda manuscripts give his name here, incorrectly, as Ma-.
  2. 1In the NE Peloponnese, Greece. ↩
  3. 2th\n is transmitted; Gaisford proposed tw=n, on the analogy of iota 126. ↩
  4. 3For other works, including a history of his native city (fragmentarily extant on papyrus: P.Oxy.11.1365), see the OCD article. ↩

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Revision history4 revisions · last 9 Aug 2014
  1. Revised — David Whitehead
  2. Revised — David Whitehead
  3. added note — David Whitehead
  4. modified headwords, set status — William Hutton
  5. Translated — David Whitehead

Cite this entry

“Menaichmos, Menaechmus, Manaichmos.” Suda On Line. Tr. David Whitehead. 19 September 2001. <https://www.cs.uky.edu/~raphael/sol/sol-entries/mu/141>. Read at ReadSuda: <https://readsuda.org/mu/141>.

Translation by David Whitehead for Suda On Line, revised by David Whitehead, William Hutton, licensed CC BY-NC-SA 1.0. Shown unchanged, under the same licence, non-commercially. Licence & terms

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