Θηραμένης
Theramenes
Translated by David Whitehead2 May 2004Vetting: high3 revisions
Translation
Greek original · Adler’s text
Θηραμένης, Κεῖος, σοφιστής. Μελετῶν βιβλία γʹ, Περὶ ὁμοιώσεως λόγου, Περὶ εἰκόνων ἤτοι παραβολῶν, Περὶ σχημάτων.
Betacode
*qhrame/nhs, *kei=os, sofisth/s. *meletw=n bibli/a g#, *peri\ o(moiw/sews lo/gou, *peri\ ei)ko/nwn h)/toi parabolw=n, *peri\ sxhma/twn.
Notes (1)
- cf. theta 342, theta 344, theta 345.
- 1The small Aegean island not far east of the tip of Attica (cf. kappa 1476). ↩
Linked from4 entries
- θ342ΘηραμένηςTheramenesAthenian, orator, pupil of Prodicus of Ceos; [the one] who was nicknamed "Kothornos". [He wrote] rhetorical exercises; and some other [works].
- θ344ΘηραμένηςTheramenes"A wise man [...], who if he anywhere fell into troubles and came face-to-face with them, has escaped his troubles". This man was changeable and [prone to] adapting [himself] to the circumstance. See under 'clever'…
- θ345ΘηραμένηςTheramenes"A wise man and amazing in everything," who never threw a bad throw, as [sc. is said] in knucklebones, but was lucky. Theramenes, he says, was "not a Chian but a Cean;" in effect he was a man for all seasons and, swift…
- τ871Τῶν τριῶν κακῶν ἕνone of the three evilsIt is a certain saying. And Menander setting forth two, as if proverbially adds on jokingly, "for [he] has one evil of these three." But they say that these are the three penalties which Theramenes prescribed. Polyzelus…
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Revision history3 revisions · last 3 Jan 2013
- Revised — David Whitehead
- slight modification of translation; added note — David Whitehead
- cosmetics, status — Catharine Roth
- Translated — David Whitehead