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Headword:
Kastôr
Adler number: kappa,469
Translated headword: Castor, Kastor
Vetting Status: high
Translation: of
Rhodes[1], or, as some [say],
Galatia; others erroneously say he was from Massilia; an orator who was nicknamed "
philo-Roman". He married the daughter of Deiotarus the senator, who killed him together with his wife, because he had slandered him to Caesar.[2] He wrote
Description of Babylon and of the Rulers of the Sea (2 books);
Errors in Chronology, and
On Epicheiremes (5 books);
On Persuasion (2 books);
On the Nile;
Art of Rhetoric; and other works.
On statues of Castor and
Pollux see under Dioscuri.[3]
Kastôr, Rhodios, ê hôs tines Galatês, hôs de alloi eplanêthêsan Massaliôtês: rhêtôr hos eklêthê Philorômaios. gêmas de houtos Dêïotarou tou sunklêtikou thugatera anêirethê hup' autou hama têi gametêi, dioti auton Kaisari diebalen. egrapse de Anagraphên Babulônos kai tôn thalassokratêsantôn en bibliois b#, Chronika agnoêmata, kai Peri epicheirêmatôn en bibliois e#, Peri peithous b#, Peri tou Neilou, technên rhêtorikên: kai hetera. zêtei peri agalmatôn Kastoros kai Poludeukous en tôi Dioskouroi.
Notes:
[1] RE Kastor(8); OCD4 Castor of
Rhodes; FGrH 250. The main paragraph of the present entry has already appeared, out of alphabetical order, as
kappa 402.
[2] The historian has been conflated with the Galatian ruler Castor, on whom see
Strabo 12.5.3;
Cicero,
Pro Rege Deiotaro. (On Deiotarus himself see OCD4 s.v.)
[3]
delta 1209.
Translated by: Malcolm Heath on 16 May 2003@18:33:02.
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