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Headword:
Diophanês
Adler number: delta,1217
Translated headword: Diophanes
Vetting Status: high
Translation: This man was from
Megalopolis.[1] [He was someone] who had great expertise in military matters because, during the lengthy war against Nabis[2] which was waged in the vicinity of
Megalopolis, he had served all the time continuously under Philopoemen[3] and [thus] acquired authentic experience in the affairs of war. Besides, in appearance and in physical prowess the man was able and formidable. And most important, he was a valiant man for war and exceptionally skilled in weaponry.
Diophanês: houtos Megalopolitês ên. hos megalên hexin eichen en tois polemikois dia to poluchroniou gegonotos tou pros Nabin polemou tois Megalopolitais astugeitonos panta sunechôs ton chronon hupo ton Philopoimena tetagmenos tribên eschêkenai tôn kata polemon ergôn alêthinên. chôris te toutôn kata tên epiphaneian kai kata tên sômatikên chreian ên ho anêr dunatos kai kataplêktikos. to de kuriôtaton, pros polemon hupêrchen anêr agathos kai tois hoplois echrêto diapherontôs.
Notes:
Polybius 21.9.1-3. For a modern summary of D's career as general and diplomat in the early second century BCE see F.W. Walbank,
A Historical Commentary on Polybius 3 (Oxford 1979) 93.
[1] And thus a fellow-citizen of
Polybius himself (
pi 1941).
[2] See generally
nu 5.
[3] See generally
phi 409.
Keywords: biography; ethics; geography; historiography; history; medicine; military affairs
Translated by: David Whitehead on 12 May 2003@09:10:28.
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