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Headword:
Putheas
Adler number: pi,3125
Translated headword: Pytheas
Vetting Status: high
Translation: Of
Athens. Rhetor. He was the son of a miller, and very insolent. He escaped from imprisonment in
Athens for a debt, and went to Macedonia;[1] then he returned home. He wrote speeches for the assembly and the law-courts, and a number of other works. But he was not ranked with the other orators, because of his insolence and unruliness.
[Note] that 'miller' [
mulôthros] is the word for someone who owns and works a mill.[2]
And from it [comes] a verb,
mulôthrô. Lay-people, though, [say]
mulônas.[3]
Putheas, Athênaios, rhêtôr, huios de ên mulôthrou, kai thrasus sphodra: phugôn te Athênêthen ek tou desmôtêriou dia ophlêma eis Makedonian êlthen, eita epanêke palin. egrapse logous dêmêgorikous kai dikanikous kai alla tina. all' ouk ekrithê meta tôn loipôn rhêtorôn, hôs thrasus kai diespasmenos. hoti mulôthros legetai ho mulôna kektêmenos kai ergazomenos. kai ex autou rhêma mulôthrô. hoi de idiôtai mulônan.
Notes:
Second half of C4 BC (born perhaps c.357). See generally RE Pytheas(3). He came to political prominence in the second half of the 320s - early in life, by Greek standards - when he opposed the deification of Alexander the Great and served as one of the ten state prosecutors (of
Demosthenes and others) in the Harpalos Affair.
[1] One manuscript wrongly says 'to
Sparta'.
[2] From
mu 1412.
[3] For other possible sense of
i)diw=tai here see under
alpha 1224.
Translated by: Malcolm Heath on 27 June 2001@11:17:36.
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