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Headword:
Phôkulidês
Adler number: phi,643
Translated headword: Phokylides, Phocylides
Vetting Status: high
Translation: Milesian, philosopher, contemporary of
Theognis.[1] Each lived 647 years after the events at
Troy, having been born in the 59th Olympiad;[2] he wrote verses, and elegies,[3] or
Advisory maxims; some refer to these as
Headings. They are stolen out of the
Sibylline [oracles].[4]
Phôkulidês, Milêsios, philosophos, sunchronos Theognidos. ên de hekateros meta chmz# etê tôn Trôïkôn, olumpiadi gegonotes nth#: egrapsen epê, kai elegeias, Paraineseis êtoi gnômas: has tines Kephalaia epigraphousin. eisi de ek tôn Sibulliakôn keklemmena.
Notes:
M.L. West in OCD(4) s.v.
Phocylides(1): "A gnomic hexameter poem composed in Miletus in the first half of the 6th cent BC had successive maxims introduced by the formula 'This too from
Phocylides'; he may have been the poet, as later assumed, or a fictitious sage".
[1]
Theognis of Megara:
theta 134.
[2] 544-541.
[3] 'Evidence for elegiacs by
Phocylides is unreliable'(West).
[4] cf. generally
sigma 354,
sigma 355,
sigma 356,
sigma 357,
sigma 358,
sigma 359,
sigma 360,
sigma 361,
sigma 362.
Translated by: David Whitehead on 27 October 2010@11:32:57.
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