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Headword: Isaios
Adler number: iota,620
Translated headword: Isaeus, Isaios
Vetting Status: high
Translation:
He is one of the ten orators; pupil of Isocrates;[1] teacher of Demosthenes;[2] Athenian by birth. But Demetrius[3] says he was from Chalcis.
This man is praised both as an orator and because he advanced Demosthenes for no fee.
The orator Isaeus[4] was dissolute as a young man, but later on was moderate. Someone asked him, 'What is the best fish and the best bird to eat?'. Isaeus said, 'I have stopped taking those things seriously; I realised that I was picking fruit in Tantalus' garden.' He was, I suppose, showing the questioner that all pleasures are shadows and dreams.
Greek Original:
Isaios: heis men esti tôn deka rhêtorôn, mathêtês de Isokratous, didaskalos de Dêmosthenous, Athênaios to genos. Dêmêtrios de Chalkidea phêsin auton einai. houtos epaineitai kai hôs rhêtôr kai hôs Dêmosthenên amisthi proagagôn. hoti Isaiou tou rhêtoros neôterou asôteuomenou, husteron de sôphronêsantos, êreto auton tis: tis aristos tôn ichthuôn kai tôn orneôn eis brôsin; pepaumai, ephê ho Isaios, tauta spoudazôn: xunêka gar tous Tantalou kêpous trugôn: endeiknumenos dêpou tôi eromenôi tauta, hoti skia kai oneirata hai hêdonai pasai.
Notes:
c.420-340s BC. See generally RE Isaios(1); OCD4 Isaeus(1).
The first paragraph here abridges Harpokration (and Photius) s.v.
[1] See iota 652 (Isocrates).
[2] See delta 454 (Demosthenes).
[3] Demetrius Magnes (RE Demetrios[80]; NP Demetrios[57]; OCD4 Demetrius[16]) fr. 6b Mejer (Hermes 109 [1981] 456).
[4] This anecdote (from Philostratus, Lives of the Sophists 1.20; again at tau 80) is in fact about the first century AD sophist of the same name (RE Isaios[2]; OCD4 Isaeus[2]).
Keywords: biography; dreams; economics; ethics; food; history; mythology; philosophy; rhetoric
Translated by: Malcolm Heath on 24 November 2000@09:35:30.
Vetted by:
David Whitehead (added note; cosmetics) on 25 August 2001@11:30:57.
David Whitehead (another keyword) on 2 October 2005@08:43:40.
David Whitehead (another note; more keywords; cosmetics) on 10 July 2011@06:16:00.
David Whitehead (updated some refs) on 2 August 2014@06:59:38.
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