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Headword:
*eu)/docos
Adler number: epsilon,3429
Translated headword: Eudoxos, Eudoxus
Vetting Status: high
Translation: Son of
Aeschines; a Cnidian;[1] philosopher, contemporary of
Plato; he had three daughters, Actis, Delphis, Philtis. He was greatly inclined to
astrologia[2] and wrote many things in this genre: [he wrote]
Cycle of Eight Years,[3] and in addition
Astronomia in epic meter.
*eu)/docos, *ai)sxi/nou, *kni/dios, filo/sofos, *pla/twnos h(likiw/ths: w(=| trei=s e)ge/nonto qugate/res, *)akti/s, *delfi/s, *filti/s. kai\ e)/sxe pro\s a)strologi/an u(perfuw=s e)/graye/ te plei=sta tou= ei)/dous tou/tou: kai\ *)oktaethri/da, e)/ti de\ di' e)pw=n *)astronomi/an.
Notes:
His 52-year lifespan (
Diogenes Laertius 8.90) is generally set at c.408-c.355 BCE, though in OCD(4) s.v.
Eudoxus(1) it is given as c.390-c.340.
The present entry on him is a (brutal) compression of
Diogenes Laertius 8.86-91.
See generally RE
Eudoxus(8); OCD(4) s.v.
Eudoxus(1); and on-line biography at web address 1.
[1]
Knidos has no Suda entry but see
Hesychius kappa3123 ('
Knidos, an island (near)
Rhodes') and ps.-
Zonaras ('
Knidos: an island'). More exactly, a peninsular city-state in SW Asia Minor: Barrington Atlas map 61 grid E4.
[2] Astrology/astronomy.
[3] cf. under
kappa 2454.
Web address 1
Keywords: biography; chronology; geography; mathematics; meter and music; philosophy; science and technology; women
Translated by: Jason Karnes on 3 May 2002@16:21:12.
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