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Headword:
Arrianos
Adler number: alpha,3868
Translated headword: Arrianos, Arrianus, Arrian
Vetting Status: high
Translation: Of Nicomedia,[1] an Epictetan philosopher;[2] known as "the new
Xenophon". He was in Rome during the reigns of the emperors Hadrian and Marcus [Aurelius] and Antoninus, and garnered honors even so far as becoming a consul himself, just as Heliconius says,[3] through the excellence of his education. He wrote a great multitude of books.[4]
Arrianos, Nikomêdeus, philosophos Epiktêteios, ho epiklêtheis neos Xenophôn. ên de en Rhômêi epi Adrianou kai Markou kai Antôninou tôn basileôn, kai axiômatôn metalabôn kai mechris autou tou hupateusai, katha phêsin Helikônios, dia tên tês paideias dexiotêta. egrapse de biblia pamplêthê.
Notes:
c.86-160 CE. See generally OCD(4) p.169, s.v. 'Arrian (Lucius Flavius
Arrianus'.
[1] In
Bithynia.
[2] For
Epictetus see
epsilon 2424.
[3]
epsilon 851, presumably.
[4] Wholly surviving: the
Anabasis of Alexander, in 7 books, and its companion-piece the
Indika;
On Hunting. (Both of these titles, and subjects, take
Xenophon as a model.) Partially surviving or lost:
Affairs after Alexander;
Bithyniaka, 8 books;
Parthika, 17 books;
Periplous;
On Tactics;
Order of Battle against the Alans.
Translated by: Jennifer Benedict on 12 July 2001@14:38:25.
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