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Headword:
Sôphrôn
Adler number: sigma,893
Translated headword: Sophron
Vetting Status: high
Translation: Of Syracuse, son of
Agathocles and Damnasyllis. He lived in the era of Xerxes and
Euripides. And he wrote
Mimes to do with men [and]
Mimes to do with women; they are in prose,[1] in the Doric dialect. And they say that
Plato the philosopher always read them, so as to be sent into an occasional doze.[2]
Greek Original:Sôphrôn, Surakousios, Agathokleous kai Damnasullidos. tois de chronois ên kata Xerxên ka Euripidên. kai egrapse Mimous andreious, Mimous gunaikeious: eisi de katalogadên, dialektôi Dôridi. kai phasi Platôna ton philosophon aei autois entunchanein, hôs kai katheudein ep' autôn esth' hote.
Notes:
C5 BCE; see also
sigma 894, and generally K.J. Dover in OCD4 s.v. This Suda entry is S. testimonium #1 Kassel-Austin.
[1] But of a poetic kind: see Dover.
[2] For this sense of the verb
e)ntugxa/nw see LSJ s.v. III. For
Plato see generally
pi 1707.
Diogenes Laertius 3.18 presents his connection with
Sophron differently: "
Plato, it seems, was the first to bring to
Athens the mimes of
Sophron, which had been neglected, and to draw characters in the style of that writer; a copy of the mimes, they say, was actually found under his pillow" (tr. R.D. Hicks).
Keywords: biography; chronology; comedy; definition; dialects, grammar, and etymology; geography; philosophy; women
Translated by: David Whitehead on 18 December 2002@04:41:58.
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