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Concerning Polemon [it has been written]: "he had gravitas of a kind found in some Dorian household management".[1]
"Both foreseeing and fearing the influence and the quarrelsomeness of mankind." Meaning the bulk, the strength. Polybius says [this].[2]
And elsewhere: "having taken note of the fortification of Sikyon and the influence of the city of Argos [Myth, Place] [Aemilius] came to Epidauros".[3]
And elsewhere: "they busied themselves with the detail of the position and influence of the city [of Alexandria]".[4]
"For no dignity comes to me from these [mere words]: what encourages me to give my life lustre is not words but actions".[5]

Baros: peri Polemônos: ên de kai to baros hoionei Dôrios tis oikonomia. proorômenos de kai katorrôdôn to baros kai to philoneikon tôn anthrôpôn. anti tou to plêthos, tên ischun. Polubios phêsi. kai authis: episêmênamenos de tou Sikuônos tên ochurotêta kai to baros tês tôn Argeiôn poleôs êlthen eis Epidauron. kai authis: epolupragmonêsan akribôs tês poleôs tên thesin kai to baros. baros gar hêmas ouden ek toutôn echei. ou gar logoisi ton bion spoudazomen lampron poieisthai mallon, ê tois drômenois.

cf. beta 120.
[1] A ghastly garbling of Diogenes Laertius 4.19, which reads oi(onei\ th=s Dwristi\ a(rmoni/as, "of the kind found in music in the Dorian mode".
[2] Polybius fr. 25 Büttner-Wobst. Büttner-Wobst follows (p. 517) Dindorf in opting for the alternative spelling filo/nikon instead of the Suda's filo/neikon.
[3] Polybius 30.10.4.
[4] Diodorus Siculus 33.28a (28b in Loeb edition); cf. iota 111.
[5] Sophocles, Oedipus at Colonus 1142-44 (Theseus speaking).

Catharine Roth on 13 December 2001@20:38:16.
David Whitehead (added note and keyword; restorative and other cosmetics) on 17 September 2002@06:14:50.
David Whitehead (more keywords; tweaking) on 21 May 2012@08:16:43.
Ronald Allen (expanded n.2, added bibliography) on 4 August 2018@22:44:24.

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