Φιλόλαος

Philolaos, Philolaus

Translated by David Whitehead14 Nov 2001Vetting: high5 revisions

1 note · 25 words

Translation

A proper name.
"So too Kroton, his native city, once killed Philolaos, he who had thought he wanted to have the house of a tyrant".1

Greek original · Adler’s text

Φιλόλαος· ὄνομα κύριον. οὕτω καὶ Φιλόλαον ἀνεῖλε Κρότων ποτὲ πάτρη, ὥς μιν ἔδοξε θέλειν δῶμα τύραννον ἔχειν.

Betacode
*filo/laos: o)/noma ku/rion. ou(/tw kai\ *filo/laon a)nei=le *kro/twn pote\ pa/trh, w(/s min e)/doce qe/lein dw=ma tu/rannon e)/xein. 

Notes (1)

  1. 1Diogenes Laertius 8.84-5, at 84; part of his epigram on the C5-BCE philosopher Philolaos of Kroton (OCD4 Philolaus). For the full version see upsilon 553. ↩

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Cite this entry

“Philolaos, Philolaus.” Suda On Line. Tr. David Whitehead. 14 November 2001. <https://www.cs.uky.edu/~raphael/sol/sol-entries/phi/384>. Read at ReadSuda: <https://readsuda.org/phi/384>.

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

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