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Headword:
*eu)frai=os
Adler number: epsilon,3808
Translated headword: Euphraios, Euphraeus
Vetting Status: high
Translation: A proper name.
He was Oreitan by nationality;[1] he was a participant in the school of
Plato.[2]
*eu)frai=os: o)/noma ku/rion. *)orei/ths h)=n to\ ge/nos: mete/sxe de\ th=s tou= *pla/twnos diatribh=s.
Notes:
After the opening gloss, this entry abridges from Harpokration s.v., citing
Demosthenes 9.59ff (web address 1).
[1] i.e. a citizen of Oreos (a.k.a. Histiaia), at the northern tip of of the island of Euboia (Barrington Atlas map 55 grid E3).
[2] In addition to having studied at the Academy (cf. OCD(4) s.v.,
alpha 774, and
alpha 775), Euphraios also served at
Plato's behest (cf.
Athenaeus,
Deipnosophists 11.115 (Kaibel), web address 2) as advisor to the military leader Perdiccas of Macedonia (cf.
pi 1040; OCD(4) s.v. Perdiccas(3); and Marrou, pp. 64-65).
H.I. Marrou, A History of Education in Antiquity, trans. G. Lamb, Madison, WI: University of Wisconsin Press, 1956.
Associated internet addresses:
Web address 1,
Web address 2
Keywords: biography; definition; geography; history; military affairs; philosophy; rhetoric
Translated by: David Whitehead on 22 November 2000@08:34:57.
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