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Headword:
Hêrakleidês
Adler number: eta,462
Translated headword: Herakleides, Heracleides, Heraclides
Vetting Status: high
Translation: [a] Of
Oxyrhynchus.[1] Philosopher; the son of Sarapion; he was nicknamed Lembus.[2] He lived under
Ptolemy VI, who made the treaty with
Antiochus.[3] He wrote philosophical and other works.
[b]
Heraclides of
Lycia,[4] a sophist, said: 'Nicetes purified', unaware that he was fitting Pygmies' spoils onto a colossus.[5]
Hêrakleidês, Oxurunchitês, philosophos, ho tou Sarapiônos, hos epeklêthê Lembos, gegonôs epi Ptolemaiou tou hektou, hos tas pros Antiochon etheto sunthêkas. egrapse philosopha kai alla. hoti Hêrakleidês ho Lukios sophistês ephê, Nikêtês ho kekatharmenos agnoêsas akrothinia Pugmaiôn Kolossôi epharmozein.
Notes:
[1] In Egypt. See generally RE Herakleides(51); OCD4
Heraclides(3).
[2] A lembos was a small, fast boat or skiff (see
lambda 245). According to
Diogenes Laertius 5.94 the nickname arose because H wrote a
Lembeutikos logos, which leaves us little the wiser.
[3]
Ptolemy VI Philometor, reigned 180-145 BC.
[4] See generally RE Herakleides(44); PIR2 H87.
[5] This proverbial phrase (from
Philostratus,
Lives of the Sophists 1.19) is quoted twice elsewhere in the Suda, with explanatory comment: "in reference to those toiling in vain" (
alpha 1002); "perhaps in reference to those bringing together incompatible things, and especially when we compare tiny things to huge ones" (
nu 387).
Translated by: Malcolm Heath on 2 March 2001@22:47:52.
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