Πολύστρατος
Polystratos, Polystratus
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Translation
This man, being accused of mutilating the Hermai, was done away with by [the] Athenians; Lysias mentions him.1 It is another [Polystratos] for whom the same Lysias wrote a speech.2 And it would be [yet] another whom Demosthenes mentions in [the] Philippics, saying that once he maintained a mercenary force in Corinth.3 Perhaps, though, one should write "Polytropos" instead of Polystratos there. For Didymus says that in no writer did he find "Polystratos" as the leader of the mercenary force in Corinth4, and that "Polytropos" is, however, an Athenian.5
Greek original · Adler’s text
Πολύστρατος· οὗτος αἰτίαν ἔχων τοῦ Ἑρμᾶς περικόψαι ἀνῃρέθη ὑπὸ Ἀθηναίων· οὗ Λυσίας μέμνηται. ἕτερος δέ ἐστιν, ὑπὲρ οὗ λόγον ἔγραψεν ὁ αὐτὸς Λυσίας. ἄλλος δ' ἂν εἴη, οὗ μνημονεύει Δημοσθένης ἐν Φιλιππικοῖς, λέγων αὐτόν ποτε ἐν Κορίνθῳ ξενικὸν τρέφειν. μήποτε μέντοι ἐνταῦθα δεῖ γράφειν Πολύτροπον, ἀντὶ τοῦ Πολυστράτου. παρὰ μηδενὶ γάρ φησιν ὁ Δίδυμος εὑρηκέναι τὸν Πολύστρατον ἡγησάμενον τοῦ ἐν Κορίνθῳ ξενικοῦ, τὸν μέντοι Πολύτροπον Ἀθηναῖον εἶναι.
Betacode
*polu/stratos: ou(=tos ai)ti/an e)/xwn tou= *(erma=s periko/yai a)nh|re/qh u(po\ *)aqhnai/wn: ou(= *lusi/as me/mnhtai. e(/teros de/ e)stin, u(pe\r ou(= lo/gon e)/grayen o( au)to\s *lusi/as. a)/llos d' a)\n ei)/h, ou(= mnhmoneu/ei *dhmosqe/nhs e)n *filippikoi=s, le/gwn au)to/n pote e)n *kori/nqw| ceniko\n tre/fein. mh/pote me/ntoi e)ntau=qa dei= gra/fein *polu/tropon, a)nti\ tou= *polustra/tou. para\ mhdeni\ ga/r fhsin o( *di/dumos eu(rhke/nai to\n *polu/straton h(ghsa/menon tou= e)n *kori/nqw| cenikou=, to\n me/ntoi *polu/tropon *)aqhnai=on ei)=nai.
Notes (5)
- Harpokration s.v., abridged. See also Photius, Lexicon pi1059 Theodoridis.
- 1Lysias fr. 118 Sauppe (now 160 Carey OCT). See also Andocides 1.13, and generally epsilon 3047. ↩
- 2Lysias -- or in fact more probably [Lysias] -- 20 (web address 1). ↩
- 3Demosthenes 4.24 (web address 2). ↩
- 4Didymus p.310 Schmidt. ↩
- 5The abridgement has caused some distortion here. This final clause is not part of what Didymus had said; rather, it is part of the refutation of Didymos by Harpok., who tells us that he had found a "Polytropos" in Xenophon (Hellenica 6.5.11: web address 3) but saw no reason to think him an Athenian. He was in fact a Spartan: see Parke (below) 50 n.4, 87 n.2; Didymus was attempting to conflate two quite different mercenary forces. ↩
References
H.W. Parke, Greek Mercenary Soldiers (Oxford 1933)
External resources
- Web address 1 perseus.tufts.edu
- Web address 2 perseus.tufts.edu
- Web address 3 perseus.tufts.edu
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- augmented n.1; another keyword — David Whitehead
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- added links, cosmetics, status — Catharine Roth
- Translated — David Whitehead