Σοφὸς Σοφοκλῆς

Sophocles [is] wise

Translated by David Whitehead10 Dec 2002Vetting: high5 revisions

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"[Sophocles is wise], Euripides [is] wiser, but Socrates [is] wiser than all men."

Greek original · Adler’s text

Σοφὸς Σοφοκλῆς, σοφώτερος δ' Εὐριπίδης, ἀνδρῶν δὲ πάντων Σωκράτης σοφώτερος.

Betacode

*sofo\s *sofoklh=s, sofw/teros d' *eu)ripi/dhs, a)ndrw=n de\ pa/ntwn *swkra/ths sofw/teros.

Notes

A metrical pronouncement supposedly by the Pythia at Delphi; from the scholia to Aristophanes, Clouds 144, where Socrates is mentioned.
For Socrates see generally sigma 829, sigma 830; for Sophocles, sigma 815; for Euripides, epsilon 3695.

Linked from1 entry

σ815ΣοφοκλῆςSophoclesSophocles, son of Sophilos, from the deme Colonus, Athenian, tragedian, born during the seventy-third Olympiad, and thus he was seventeen years older than Socrates. Sophocles was first to employ three actors and the…

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σ818ΣοφονίαςSophonias, Zephaniah σ819Σοφόςskilled, wise σ820Σοφὸς ΣοφοκλῆςSophocles [is] wise σ821Σόφων ΣόφωνοςSophon, [genitive] Sophonos σ822Σοφώτατεo most wise

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