Νεοκλῆς
Neokles, Neocles
Translated by David Whitehead21 Sep 2003Vetting: high7 revisions
Translation
Greek original · Adler’s text
Νεοκλῆς, Ἀθηναῖος, φιλόσοφος, ἀδελφὸς Ἐπικούρου. ὑπὲρ τῆς ἰδίας αἱρέσεως. ὅτι Νεοκλέους ἐστὶ τό, λάθε βιώσας.
Betacode
*neoklh=s, *)aqhnai=os, filo/sofos, a)delfo\s *)epikou/rou. u(pe\r th=s i)di/as ai(re/sews. o(/ti *neokle/ous e)sti\ to/, la/qe biw/sas.
Notes (2)
- 1Mentioned by Diogenes Laertius 10.3. For Epicurus see generally epsilon 2404. Since E.'s father was also called Neokles, this present Neokles was evidently the eldest (of four brothers). ↩
- 2cf. Julian, Letter to Themistius 255b Bidez-Cumont. The point is evidently polemical: others attributed the phrase to Epicurus himself or else to Democritus. At any rate it became proverbial (lambda 41; Philostratus, Life of Apollonius of Tyana 8.28; etc.), and Plutarch devoted an entire work to it (Moralia 1128Aff), entitled Whether the phrase "live unobtrusively" is well said. ↩
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