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Headword:
*stra/twn
Adler number: sigma,1185
Translated headword: Straton, Strato
Vetting Status: high
Translation: Of
Lampsakos,[1] philosopher, acquaintance and successor of Theophrastos,[2] and son of Arkesilaos or Arkesios; [the one] who was surnamed Physikos[3] because he more than any other man was engaged with physical theory.[4] And he instructed
Ptolemy surnamed Philadelphos.[5] And he wrote many books.
*stra/twn, *lamyakhno/s, filo/sofos, *qeofra/stou gnw/rimos kai\ dia/doxos, ui(o\s de\ *)arkesila/ou h)\ *)arkesi/ou: o(\s e)peklh/qh *fusiko\s dia\ to\ par' o(ntinaou=n e)pimelhqh=nai th=s fusikh=s qewri/as. kaqhgh/sato de\ kai\ *ptolemai/ou tou= e)piklhqe/ntos *filade/lfou. kai\ e)/graye bibli/a polla/.
Notes:
Died 269 BCE. See generally OCD4, under Straton(1). For the present entry cf.
Diogenes Laertius 5.58.
[1]
lambda 105.
[2]
theta 199.
[3] Or the Physic, or Physicist. He succeeded Theophrastos as head of the Lykeion (Lyceum) in
Athens.
[4] Or the theory of nature (
fu/sis).
[5] The second of the Ptolemaic dynasty (Alexander the Great’s successors) in Egypt; born 308 BCE and ruled 282-246.
Translated by: D. Graham J. Shipley on 3 August 2002@06:13:18.
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