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Headword: Philêtas
Adler number: phi,332
Translated headword: Philetas
Vetting Status: high
Translation:
Of Cos. Son of Telephus; lived under both Philip and Alexander. Grammarian [and] critic. He died withered as a result of his quest for the so-called 'Falsified discourse'. He also became tutor of Ptolemy II. He wrote epigrams; elegies; etc.
Greek Original:
Philêtas, Kôios, huios Têlephou, ôn epi te Philippou kai Alexandrou, grammatikos kritikos: hos ischnôtheis ek tou zêtein ton kaloumenon Pseudomenon logon apethanen. egeneto de kai didaskalos tou deuterou Ptolemaiou. egrapsen epigrammata, kai elegeias kai alla.
Note:
C4/3 BC. RE Philetas(1); OCD4 Philitas [sic].
Reference:
R. Pfeiffer A History of Classical Scholarship (Oxford 1968) 88-93
Keywords: biography; chronology; dialects, grammar, and etymology; geography; imagery; medicine; poetry; rhetoric
Translated by: Malcolm Heath on 26 March 1999@10:39:47.
Vetted by:
David Whitehead (added keyword; cosmetics) on 6 September 2002@11:48:45.
Catharine Roth (added italics) on 8 April 2011@14:08:07.
David Whitehead (more keywords; tweaking) on 9 December 2013@08:31:09.
David Whitehead (updated a ref) on 2 August 2014@10:22:31.
Catharine Roth (coding) on 20 February 2023@00:40:50.
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