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Headword:
*pu/qwn
Adler number: pi,3139
Translated headword: Python, Pytho
Vetting Status: high
Translation: Of
Byzantium, rhetor; after going into exile he spent time in Macedonia, and induced many people to turn traitor and become his accomplices in everything, and he used them to destroy his enemies.
*pu/qwn, *buza/ntios, r(h/twr: o(\s fugw\n e)n *makedoni/a| die/tribe kai\ pollou\s prodo/tas e)/peise gene/sqai kai\ sunergou\s pro\s pa/nta, kai\ pro\s ta\s diafqora\s tw=n polemi/wn e)xrh=to.
Notes:
C4 BC. See generally RE
Python(4).
The source of the present entry is unclear. Adler suggests FGrH 151, but that is part of a narrative of the campaigns of Alexander the Great in the second half of the 330s. For
Python see rather [
Demosthenes] 7.19-23 on the embassy to
Athens in 344, by
Python and others, to renegotiate the Peace of Philokrates.
N.G.L. Hammond and G.T. Griffith, A History of Macedonia, ii (Oxford 1979) 489-95 (and 714 for the suggestion that Python might be the author of [Demosthenes] 12)
Keywords: biography; ethics; geography; historiography; history; law; politics; rhetoric
Translated by: Malcolm Heath on 27 June 2001@11:10:21.
Vetted by:David Whitehead (augmented note; added keywords; cosmetics) on 28 June 2001@03:16:43.
David Whitehead (more keywords; cosmetics) on 26 July 2011@08:19:13.
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