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Headword:
Poludeukês
Adler number: pi,1951
Translated headword: Polydeukes, Pollux
Vetting Status: high
Translation: of Naucratis.[1] Some write that he is a sophist of Ardyenna, [but] they are joking:[2] Ardyenna [is] a city of Phoenicia.[3] He taught in
Athens under the emperor Commodus,[4] and died aged 58, having composed the following books:
Onomasticon (10 books: it is a collection of different words for the same thing);
informal discourses, or talks;
declamations;
epithalamium to Caesar Commodus;
Roman Speech;
Trumpet, or Musical Contest;
Against Socrates;
Against the People of Sinope;
Panhellenic [Speech];
Arcadian [Speech];[5] and so on.
On statues of Castor and [sc. the mythological]
Pollux see under 'Dioscuri'.[6]
Poludeukês, Naukratitês. tines de Ardouennas sophistên graphousi, paizontes: polis de Phoinikês hê Ardouenna. epaideuse gar en Athênais epi Komodou tou basileôs kai eteleutêsen etê bious ê# kai n#, suntaxas biblia tauta: Onomastikon en bibliois i#: esti de sunagôgê tôn diaphorôs kata tou autou legomenôn: Dialexeis êtoi lalias, Meletas, Eis Komodon Kaisara Epithalamion, Rhômaïkon logon, Salpinktên ê agôna mousikon, Kata Sôkratous, Kata Sinôpeôn, Panellênion, Arkadikon: kai hetera. zêtei agalmata Kastoros kai Poludeukous en tôi Dioskouroi.
Notes:
C2 AD. RE Iulius(773); OCD4
Pollux, Iulius; PIR2 I474. For some of the present material cf.
Philostratus,
Lives of the Sophists 2.12.
[1] In Egypt (
nu 57,
nu 58).
[2] Adler notes Kuster's suggested emendation of this participle to
ptai/ontes ("blundering").
[3] No Phoenician city of this name is attested, and it is in any case a NW European name: Ardennes (see e.g.
Strabo 4.3.5, and Barrington Atlas map 11 grid G4). Adler notes the suggested double emendation by Jonathan Toup (1713-1785) to Arados, in
Syria. See also n. 5 below.
[4]
kappa 2007.
[5] Adler notes the suggested emendation, by von Gutschmid, of
Arkadikon to
Aradikon; cf. n. 3 above.
[6]
delta 1209.
Translated by: Malcolm Heath on 5 September 2003@15:46:20.
Vetted by:William Hutton (cosmetics, added keywords, set status) on 5 September 2003@15:52:21.
David Whitehead (augmented note; added keyword; cosmetics) on 6 September 2003@07:03:26.
David Whitehead (more notes; cosmetics; raised status) on 4 August 2011@10:22:18.
David Whitehead (updated a ref) on 2 August 2014@11:36:54.
David Whitehead (tweaked tr; expanded one note, added another) on 23 June 2016@11:34:15.
Catharine Roth (cosmeticule) on 4 October 2021@00:32:42.
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