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Aisôpos
Adler number: alphaiota,333
Translated headword: Aesop, Aisopos, Aesopus
Vetting Status: high
Translation: [sc. The name of] Mithridates' secretary.[1] He wrote Concerning Helen, in which he says that there is a whale-like fish called a 'Pan', and that in this [fish] a precious stone is found which lights up in the sun, and she uses it for love-charms.[1] He also wrote an Encomium of Mithridates.
Greek Original:Aisôpos, Mithridatou anagnôstês. egrapse peri Helenês: en hôi phêsi Pana ichthun kaleisthai kêtôdê. en toutôi de ton asteritên lithon heuriskesthai, hos hupo tôi hêliôi anaptetai, poiei de pros philtra. egrapse kai Mithridatou enkômion.
Notes:
C1 BCE; FGrH 187a. Material repeated at
iota 783 and
pi 148.
[1] 'Mithridates/
Mithradates' was the name of six kings of Pontus in Asia Minor: see OCD(4) s.v.
Mithradates (pp.963-4), and
mu 1044. This is taken to be the last and best-known of them (120-63 BCE).
[2] The material from 'there is a' to 'love-charms' derives from
Photius'
Bibliotheca (153b22-29), where it is attributed to the
Kaine historia of '
Ptolemy, son of Hephaestion' (
pi 3037).
Translated by: William Hutton on 21 May 2003@12:40:25.
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