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Headword: Onêsikritos Adler number: omicron,351 Translated headword: Onesikritos, Onesicritus Vetting Status: high Translation:
A proper name.
Onesikritos "as an imitator, takes second place to his model."[1] That is, [to] Xenophon.
Greek Original:
Onêsikritos: onoma kurion. ho de Onêsikritos apographos ex archetupou deutereuei. toutesti tou Xenophôntos.
Notes:
Onesikritos of Astypalaia (C4 BCE; OCD4 Onesicritus; FGrH 134) wrote an encomiastic account of Alexander the Great (whom he had served as chief helmsman) supposedly modelled on the Kyroupaideia/Cyropaedia of Xenophon (xi 47). With the present entry cf. already alpha 3274.
[1] Diogenes Laertius 6.84.