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Headword:
Noumênios
Adler number: nu,517
Translated headword: Numenius, Noumenios
Vetting Status: high
Translation: Of Apamea, [i.e.] from
Syria; a Pythagorean philosopher. This man is the one who criticized the thought of
Plato, on the grounds that he had stolen his ideas about God and the creation of the universe from the books of
Moses. And because of this he says, "For what is
Plato but
Moses speaking Attic?"[1]
Noumênios, Apameus, apo Surias philosophos Puthagoreios. houtos estin ho tên tou Platônos exelenxas dianoian, hôs ek tôn Môsaïkôn ta peri theou kai kosmou geneseôs aposulêsasan. kai dia touto phêsi: ti gar esti Platôn ê Môsês Attikizôn;
Notes:
OCD4 Numenius.
Numenius of Apamea was a Platonist or Pythagorean philosopher of the 2nd century CE.
[1] cf.
Porphyry,
On the Cave of the Nymphs 10;
Clement of Alexandria,
Stromata 1.22.150.4.
Translated by: Catharine Roth on 6 December 2000@13:17:39.
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