Φιλίσκος

Philiskos, Philiscus

Translated by David Whitehead16 Nov 2001Vetting: high5 revisions

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Of Aigina [Myth, Place], the man who taught Alexander of Macedon his letters.¹ He himself was a pupil of Diogenes the Cynic,² though of Stilpon³ according to Hermippus.⁴ He wrote dialogues, one of which is Kodros.

Greek original · Adler’s text

Φιλίσκος, Αἰγινήτης, ὁ διδάξας γράμματα Ἀλέξανδρον τὸν Μακεδόνα. αὐτὸς δὲ ἀκουστὴς ἦν τοῦ Κυνὸς Διογένους, κατὰ δὲ Ἕρμιππον Στίλπωνος. ἔγραψε διαλόγους, ὧν ἐστι Κόδρος.

Betacode

*fili/skos, *ai)ginh/ths, o( dida/cas gra/mmata *)ale/candron to\n *makedo/na. au)to\s de\ a)kousth\s h)=n tou= *kuno\s *dioge/nous, kata\ de\ *(/ermippon *sti/lpwnos. e)/graye dialo/gous, w(=n e)sti *ko/dros.

Notes (4)

See generally OCD4 1130, under Philiscus(3); and further at phi 362.
1Unlikely. ↩
2Diogenes Laertius 6.73 calls him a "friend" of Diogenes (delta 1141, etc). ↩
3sigma 1114. ↩
4Hermippus of Smyrna (OCD4 s.v., no.2), the Hellenistic biographer of philosophers. ↩

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φ362ΦιλίσκοςPhiliskos, PhiliscusOf Aigina [Myth, Place]. He came to Athens on a sightseeing trip but heard Diogenes [lecturing] and became a philosopher. His father sent his brother out after him, who himself had the same experience; and when their…

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