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Headword:
*lesxi/dhs
Adler number: lambda,311
Translated headword: Leschides
Vetting Status: high
Translation: An epic poet. He joined King Eumenes on campaign. He was the most famous of the poets [?who did so?]. Companions of this man were Pythias the historian[1] and
Menander, a doctor.
*lesxi/dhs, e)pw=n poihth/s: o(\s sunestra/teusen *eu)me/nei tw=| basilei=: o(\s h)=n e)pifane/statos tw=n poihtw=n. sunh=n de\ tou/tw| kai\ *puqi/as o( suggrafeu\s kai\ *me/nandros i)atro/s.
Notes:
It is orthodox to assume from this entry that Leschides was an historian -- a chronicler of the campaigns of Eumenes II, king of Pergamum 197-158 BCE -- as well as a poet. So (e.g.) FGrH 172. For Leschides elsewhere in the Suda cf.
kappa 2395.
[1] Perhaps an error for "the painter". On Pytheas of Boura, in Achaia, see e.g.
Pliny,
Natural History 33.156;
Stephanus of
Byzantium s.v. Boura.
H.Lloyd-Jones and P.Parsons, Supplementum Hellenisticum (Berlin 1983) 250, fr.503.
Keywords: art history; biography; chronology; epic; historiography; history; medicine; military affairs
Translated by: David Whitehead on 11 July 2001@11:47:43.
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