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Son of Grylos,[1] Athenian, Socratic philosopher; [it was he] who was the first to write lives of philosophers and commentaries. By Philesia he had his sons Grylos and Diodoros, who were also called the Dioskouroi;[2] he himself was dubbed the Attic honeybee. He became a schoolmate of Plato and flourished during the 95th Olympiad.[3] He wrote more than 40 books, among them these: Cyropaedia [in] 8 books, Anabasis of Cyrus [in] 7 books, Hellenica [Greek History] [in] 7 books, Symposium; and many others.

Xenophôn, Grulou, Athênaios, philosophos Sôkratikos: hos prôtos egrapse bious philosophôn kai apomnêmoneumata. paidas eschen apo Philêsias Grulon kai Diodôron, hoi kai Dioskouroi ekalounto: autos de Attikê melitta epônomazeto. gegone de sumphoitêtês Platônos kai êkmaze kata tên #4e# olumpiada. egrapse biblia pleiona tôn m#, hôn kai tauta: Kurou paideias biblia ê#, Kurou Anabaseôs biblia z#, Hellênikôn biblia z#, Sumposion: kai alla polla.

On Xenophon (c.428-c.354) see generally C.J. Tuplin in OCD(4) s.v. Xenophon(1), and again xi 48. For the present material cf. Diogenes Laertius 2.48, 52, 55-57.
[1] The more authentic spelling is Gryllos.
[2] The nickname obviously indicates (what is otherwise not directly attested) that they were twins; cf. delta 1209. On "Grylos" see the preceding note. (The spelling is correct in gamma 463, from Harpokration.)
[3] 400-397. For Plato see pi 1707.

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