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Headword:
*file/yios
Adler number: phi,316
Translated headword: Philepsios, Philepsius
Vetting Status: high
Translation: He was a lover of games.[1]
Demosthenes [in the speech]
Against Timokrates [mentions him].[2] The poets of Old Comedy mention Philepsios, for telling stories in the middle of public speeches. He was also ridiculed in comedy for villainy.
Interpretation of a dream: to love [
philein] rouses long battles of enemies.[3]
*file/yios: h)=n de\ filopai/gmwn. *dhmosqe/nhs kata\ *timokra/tous. *fileyi/ou mnhmoneu/ousin oi( th=s a)rxai/as kwmw|di/as poihtai/, e)pi\ tw=| metacu\ tw=n dhmhgoriw=n mu/qous le/gein. kekwmw/|dhtai de\ kai\ ei)s panourgi/an. lu/sis o)nei/rou: filei=n e)gei/rei dusmenw=n makra\s ma/xas.
Notes:
Philepsios of Lamptrai, early C4 BCE.
Source (after the opening definition): Harpokration s.v., via
Photius phi171 Theodoridis.
[1] cf.
epsilon 4064, where "lover of games" is given as the meaning for the name "Philepsios", rendering it unclear whether this statement is to be construed with the personage referred to in the following statement.
[2]
Demosthenes 24.134 (web address 1).
[3] From the dream-interpretations, in verse, attributed to
Astrampsychus (
alpha 4251).
Web address 1
Keywords: biography; comedy; daily life; dreams; ethics; meter and music; poetry; rhetoric
Translated by: David Whitehead on 22 December 2000@04:54:00.
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