Παῦλος

Paul, Paulos, Paulus

Translated by Malcolm Heath5 Sep 2003Vetting: high4 revisions

2 notes · 33 words

Translation

of Tyre. Rhetor. Lived at the time of Philo of Byblos.1 In an embassy to the emperor Hadrian he succeeded in making Tyre a metropolis.2 He wrote an Art of Rhetoric; Progymnasmata; declamations.

Greek original · Adler’s text

Παῦλος, Τύριος, ῥήτωρ, γεγονὼς κατὰ Φίλωνα τὸν Βύβλιον· ὃς ἐπὶ Ἀδριανοῦ τοῦ βασιλέως πρεσβεύσας μητρόπολιν τὴν Τύρον ἐποίησεν. ἔγραψε Τέχνην ῥητορικήν, Προγυμνάσματα, μελέτας.

Betacode
*pau=los, *tu/rios, r(h/twr, gegonw\s kata\ *fi/lwna to\n *bu/blion: o(\s e)pi\ *)adrianou= tou= basile/ws presbeu/sas mhtro/polin th\n *tu/ron e)poi/hsen. e)/graye *te/xnhn r(htorikh/n, *progumna/smata, mele/tas. 

Notes (2)

  1. C1/2 AD. RE Paulos(17).
  2. 1phi 447: Philo. ↩
  3. 2In 129-130. Damascus and Samosata also received this privilege -- joining Antioch, which already had it. See A.R. Birley, Hadrian: the restless emperor (London 1997) 227. ↩

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Revision history4 revisions · last 20 Jun 2016
  1. another note — David Whitehead
  2. Revised — David Whitehead
  3. augmented note; added keyword; cosmetics — David Whitehead
  4. cosmetics, added keywords, set status — William Hutton
  5. Translated — Malcolm Heath

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