Φιλίσκος
Philiskos, Philiscus
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Translation
Of Aigina [Myth, Place]. He came to Athens on a sightseeing trip but heard Diogenes [lecturing] and became a philosopher. His father1 sent his brother2 out after him, who himself had the same experience; and when their father returned to look for the pair of them, he also became a philosopher. Another associate of his was Phokion the Good.3 After his death [Diogenes] was buried in Corinth, and there is a dog on his gravestone. And he was honoured in Sinope with a statue and an epigram [which read]: "time makes even gold grow old; but your renown, Diogenes, not all eternity will destroy. For you alone showed mortals the glory of a self-sufficient life and the easiest path of existence."4
Greek original · Adler’s text
Φιλίσκος, Αἰγινήτης· ὃς κατὰ θέαν ἐλθὼν τῶν Ἀθηναίων, ἀκούσας Διογένους ἐφιλοσόφησεν. ὁ δὲ τούτου πατὴρ ἀπέστειλεν ἐπ' αὐτὸν τὸν ἀδελφόν, καὶ ταυτὸν ἔπαθε καὶ οὗτος· καὶ ὁ πατὴρ πάλιν ἐπ' ἀμφοτέρους ἐλθὼν ἐφιλοσόφησε καὶ αὐτός. ἐγένετο δὲ αὐτοῦ ὁμιλητὴς καὶ Φωκίων ὁ χρηστός. τελευτήσας δὲ ἐν Κορίνθῳ κεῖται, καὶ κύων ἐστὶν ἐπὶ τῷ μνήματι. ἐτιμήθη δὲ εἰκόνι παρὰ Σινωπέων καὶ ἐπιγράμματι· γηράσκει καὶ χρυσὸς ὑπὸ χρόνου· ἀλλὰ σὸν οὔτι κῦδος ὁ πᾶς αἰών, Διόγενες, καθελεῖ. μοῦνος ἐπεὶ βιοτᾷ αὐταρκέα δόξαν ἔδειξας θνητοῖς οἷς ζωῆς οἶμος ἐλαφροτάτη.
Betacode
*fili/skos, *ai)ginh/ths: o(\s kata\ qe/an e)lqw\n tw=n *)aqhnai/wn, a)kou/sas *dioge/nous e)filoso/fhsen. o( de\ tou/tou path\r a)pe/steilen e)p' au)to\n to\n a)delfo/n, kai\ tauto\n e)/paqe kai\ ou(=tos: kai\ o( path\r pa/lin e)p' a)mfote/rous e)lqw\n e)filoso/fhse kai\ au)to/s. e)ge/neto de\ au)tou= o(milhth\s kai\ *fwki/wn o( xrhsto/s. teleuth/sas de\ e)n *kori/nqw| kei=tai, kai\ ku/wn e)sti\n e)pi\ tw=| mnh/mati. e)timh/qh de\ ei)ko/ni para\ *sinwpe/wn kai\ e)pigra/mmati: ghra/skei kai\ xruso\s u(po\ xro/nou: a)lla\ so\n ou)/ti ku=dos o( pa=s ai)w/n, *dio/genes, kaqelei=. mou=nos e)pei\ biota=| au)tarke/a do/can e)/deicas qnhtoi=s oi(=s zwh=s oi)=mos e)lafrota/th.
Notes (4)
- For Ph. see already phi 359. For the present entry cf. Diogenes Laertius 6.75-6 and 78.
- 1Onesikritos. ↩
- 2Androsthenes. ↩
- 3A prominent Athenian general and politician of the era. See generally OCD4 Phocion; phi 640. ↩
- 4Greek Anthology 16.334 (Antiphilus), on the fame of Diogenes the Cynic; cf. Gow and Page vol. I (120-121) and vol. II (141-142). Whereas the Suda here reads
xruso\s ("gold"), Gow and Page follow (vol. I, 121) the Anthologia Planudea and Diogenes Laertius 6.78 in readingxalko\s ("bronze"). ↩
References
A.S.F. Gow and D.L. Page, eds., The Greek Anthology: The Garland of Philip and Some Contemporary Epigrams, vol. I, (Cambridge, 1968)
A.S.F. Gow and D.L. Page, eds., The Greek Anthology: The Garland of Philip and Some Contemporary Epigrams, vol. II, (Cambridge, 1968)
A.S.F. Gow and D.L. Page, eds., The Greek Anthology: The Garland of Philip and Some Contemporary Epigrams, vol. II, (Cambridge, 1968)
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Revision history6 revisions · last 3 Jul 2022
- expanded n.4, added bibliography — Ronald Allen
- Revised — David Whitehead
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- Modified translation; cosmetics — Elizabeth Vandiver
- augmented note and keywords — David Whitehead
- Translated — David Whitehead