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Headword:
Pôlos
Adler number: pi,2170
Translated headword: Polus, Polos
Vetting Status: high
Translation: Of Acragas.[1] Rhetor, or rather one of the older sophists. The teacher of
Licymnius.[2] He wrote
Genealogy of the Greeks and barbarians who fought at Troy and how each of them ended up (but some attribute this to Damastes[3]);
Catalogue of Ships;[4]
On Diction.
Greek Original:Pôlos, Akragantinos, rhêtôr, mallon de sophistês tôn palai, didaskalos Likumniou. egrapse Genealogian tôn epi Ilion strateusantôn Hellênôn kai barbarôn kai pôs hekastos apêllaxe: tines de auto Damastou epigraphousi: Neôn katalogon, Peri lexeôs.
Notes:
C5/4 BC. See generally RE Polos(3); OCD4
Polus;
Philostratus,
Lives of the Sophists 1.13; FGrH 7.
[1] Present-day Agrigento, in
Sicily. See already under
gamma 388.
[2] Of
Chios, dithyrambic poet and rhetorician; but
Plato,
Phaedrus 267C, makes
Polus the pupil.
[3] FGrH 5; cf.
delta 41.
[4] sc. assembled for the Trojan War.
Keywords: biography; chronology; dialects, grammar, and etymology; epic; geography; historiography; military affairs; mythology; rhetoric
Translated by: Malcolm Heath on 16 May 2002@22:09:26.
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