Ποσειδώνιος
Posidonius, Poseidonios
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Translation
[Posidonius], of Alexandria. Stoic philosopher. A pupil of Zeno of Citium.1 He wrote a history continuing from Polybius in 52 books, down to the Cyrenaic war and Ptolemy;2 rhetorical declamations; hypotheses to Demosthenes (but I think that these are rather [the work] of Posidonius the sophist, of Olbiopolis).3
Greek original · Adler’s text
Ποσειδώνιος, Ἀλεξανδρεύς, φιλόσοφος Στωϊκός, μαθητὴς Ζήνωνος τοῦ Κιτιέως. ἔγραψεν ἱστορίαν τὴν μετὰ Πολύβιον ἐν βιβλίοις νβʹ ἕως τοῦ πολέμου τοῦ Κυρηναϊκοῦ καὶ Πτολεμαίου, καὶ μελέτας ῥητορικάς, ὑποθέσεις εἰς Δημοσθένην· καὶ οἶμαι ταῦτα μᾶλλον Ποσειδωνίου τοῦ σοφιστοῦ εἶναι, τοῦ Ὀλβιοπολίτου.
Betacode
*poseidw/nios, *)alecandreu/s, filo/sofos *stwi+ko/s, maqhth\s *zh/nwnos tou= *kitie/ws. e)/grayen i(stori/an th\n meta\ *polu/bion e)n bibli/ois nb# e(/ws tou= pole/mou tou= *kurhnai+kou= kai\ *ptolemai/ou, kai\ mele/tas r(htorika/s, u(poqe/seis ei)s *dhmosqe/nhn: kai\ oi)=mai tau=ta ma=llon *poseidwni/ou tou= sofistou= ei)=nai, tou= *)olbiopoli/tou.
Notes (3)
- 1See zeta 79: Zeno. For this man as a pupil of Zeno cf. Diogenes Laertius 7.38. ↩
- 2For Polybius and his 40-book History see pi 1941; it covered the years 220-146. Posidonius' continuation evidently started from 146, the destruction of Carthage (and Corinth), but its precise end-point is hard to determine, despite what the present Suda entry says. (No 'Cyrenaic war' is recognised elsewhere, and there are too many candidates for 'Ptolemy'.) Various dates between the 80s and the 60s have been proposed. ↩
- 3For Posidonius of Olbiopolis see pi 2109. The continuation of Polybius was in fact the work of [pi 2107] Posidonius of Apamea; but the entry on Polybius (pi 1941) attributes it to Posidonius of Olbiopolis. ↩
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- another note — David Whitehead
- more keywords; tweaking — David Whitehead
- supplied headwords; augmented notes — David Whitehead
- Revised — Ross Scaife ✝
- Translated — Malcolm Heath