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Soupêrianos
Adler number: sigma,799
Translated headword: Superianus, Souperianos
Vetting Status: high
Translation: Sophist. An Isaurian by birth;[1] a member of Lachares'[2] school. This Superianus was rather a late learner and somewhat dull by nature; but he was so painstaking and serious-minded that, beginning when he was more than 30 years old, he read the books of the orators and (put simply) applied his mind to liberal pursuits, and compelled himself - not sparing rebukes and beatings -- to learn at such an age what is demanded of everyone else in their youth, when they are still boys with pedagogues and teachers.[3] Superianus was often seen in the baths after a self-administered beating. And he did not fail in what he hoped for, but shortly after in gleaming and much-sung
Athens he was proclaimed a sophist, and scarcely fell short of Lachares' fame. For I know that Lachares too became a sophist through diligence more than natural ability; for I have come upon his speeches, and he seems to me (judging from his style) to be very diligent, but lacking nobility of nature. I have seen an image of the man, which plainly declares what Lachares was like by nature: he 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.
Soupêrianos, sophistês, to genos Isauros, tês Lacharou diatribês. egeneto de houtos ho Soupêrianos opsimathês men hikanôs kai tên phusin huponôthesteros, houtô de epiponos kai spoudaios, hôste pleionôn ê l# etôn arxamenon anaginôskein ta tôn rhêtorôn biblia, kai haplôs phanai, logois eleutherois prosechein tên dianoian, heauton apaitein pros anankês, oude epitimêseôn oude mastigôn pheidomenon, ekmanthanein en tôi têlikoutôi tês hêlikias, haper hoi alloi pantes en têi neotêti apaitountai paides eti ontes hupo paidagôgôn te kai didaskalôn. all' hoge Soupêrianos autos huph' heautou memastigômenos heôrato pollakis en tois balaneiois. oukoun oude diêmarten elpidos: alla mikron husteron en tais liparais kai aoidimois Athênais anêgoreueto sophistês, ou panu tês Lacharou doxês apoleipomenos. oida gar kai Lacharên gegonota sophistên ex epimeleias to pleon ê phuseôs: enetuchon gar autou logois. kai moi edoxen apo tou logou eikazonti moi tên prôtên epimelês men einai sphodra, tên de phusin agennesteros. eidon de kai eikona tou andros, antikrus apangellousan hoios ên Lacharês tên phusin: hoti braduteros men pros tous logous, kalos de kai agathos tên opsin pros aretên, philosophos axios kaleisthai mallon ê sophistês. epei kai allôs theophilês anêr ên ho Lacharês, hosge tas opseis apobalôn palin anektêsato.
Notes:
RE Superianos; PLRE II Superianus. The present material is
Damascius,
Life of Isidore fr. 140 Zintzen.
[1]
Isauria was 'an ill-defined region of the Taurus mountains sandwiched between
Pisidia to the west,
Lycaonia to the north, and Rugged
Cilicia' (OCD4 s.v.).
[2] [
lambda 165] Lachares.
[3] The study of rhetoric normally begin in one's early- or mid-teens; cf. [
omicron 1079]
opsimathes.
Translated by: Malcolm Heath on 23 March 1999@16:39:35.
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