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Headword:
Lacharês
Adler number: lambda,165
Translated headword: Lachares
Vetting Status: high
Translation: Son of Lachares; of
Athens. Sophist. A pupil of Heracleon of
Athens;[1] he taught many pupils, among whom Eustephius,[2]
Nicolaus[3] and Asterius[4] are well-known. Floruit under the emperors
Marcianus and Leon. He wrote
On Colon, Comma and Period; informal discourses; a history according to
Cornutus;[5]
Rhetorical Selections (alphabetically arranged).
Lachares the sophist was rather slow of speech, but handsome and fine in appearance; as to virtue, he deserves to be called a philosopher rather than a sophist. He was an especially pious man, and having lost his sight he regained it.[6]
Greek Original:Lacharês, Lacharous, Athênaios, sophistês: mathêtês Hêrakleônos Athênaiou, didaskalos de pleistôn, endoxôn de Eustephiou kai Nikolaou kai Asteriou: akmasas epi te Markianou kai Leontos tôn basileôn. egrapse Peri kôlou kai kommatos kai periodou, Dialexeis, Historian tên kata Kornouton, Eklogas rhêtorikas kata stoicheion. hoti ho Lacharês ho sophistês braduteros men ên pros tous logous, kalos de kai agathos tên opsin: pros aretên philosophos axios kaleisthai mallon ê sophistês. epei kai allôs theophilês anêr ên, hos ge tas opseis apobalôn palin anektêsato.
Notes:
RE Lachares(3)=(4); PLRE II Lachares(2); LGPN ii s.v. no.4.
[1] PLRE II Heracleon; otherwise unattested.
[2]
epsilon 3750.
[3]
nu 394 and
nu 395.
[4] PLRE II Asterius (6).
[5] Perhaps 'a history ...;
Art of Rhetoric according to
Cornutus'. Graeven (1891) argued that the rhetorical treatise known as the
Anonymus Seguerianus is an epitome of a work by an early third-century rhetorician named
Cornutus, cited in Lachares'
On Colon, Comma and Period.
[6]
Damascius,
Life of Isidore fr. 140 Zintzen (84 Asmus); see in full at
sigma 799.
Reference:
H. Graeven, 'Ein Fragment des Lachares', Hermes 30 (1891) 289-313
Keywords: biography; chronology; dialects, grammar, and etymology; ethics; geography; history; medicine; philosophy; rhetoric
Translated by: Malcolm Heath on 8 May 2002@21:55:03.
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