Πέρσης
Perses
Translated by David Whitehead29 Feb 2004Vetting: high4 revisions
Translation
of Askra, epic poet, brother of the poet Hesiod.
Greek original · Adler’s text
Πέρσης, Ἀσκραῖος, ἐποποιός, ἀδελφὸς Ἡσιόδου τοῦ ποιητοῦ.
Betacode
*pe/rshs, *)askrai=os, e)popoio/s, a)delfo\s *(hsio/dou tou= poihtou=.
Notes
- For Hesiod see eta 583. Despite the present entry, there is no good reason to believe that Perses, the target of some of Hesiod's strictures in Works and Days, was himself a poet. (Adler notes D. Ruhnken's conjecture of
gewpo/nos 'tiller of the soil' fore)popoio/s , but the latter is a designation that the Suda awards very freely.)
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- Translated — David Whitehead