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Headword: *)ammw/nios
Adler number: alpha,1640
Translated headword: Ammonios, Ammonius
Vetting Status: high
Translation:
Philosopher; of Alexandria; nicknamed Saccas.[1] He was of Christian parents, but became a [pagan] Greek, as Porphyry says.[2]
Greek Original:
*)ammw/nios, filo/sofos, *)alecandreu/s, o( e)piklhqei\s *sakka=s. ou(=tos a)po\ *xristianw=n ge/gonen *(/ellhn, w(/s fhsi *porfu/rios.
Notes:
RE Ammonios(14); NP Ammonios(3); OCD(4) Ammonius(2) Saccas.
Ammonios Sakkas taught the most prominent Neoplatonists, both pagan (Plotinus) and Christian (Origen: see the beginning of omega 182). See web address 1 below (Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy), and cf. sigma 33 (end).
[1] 'The nickname Saccas (sack-carrier? wearer of sackcloth?) would seem to imply a humble origin, though other interpretations have been proposed' (OCD).
[2] Porphyry, Against the Christians fr. 39 Harnack (Eusebius, Ecclesiastical History 6.9.7).
Associated internet address:
Web address 1
Keywords: biography; Christianity; geography; philosophy; religion
Translated by: Malcolm Heath on 7 July 1999@14:45:12.
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Catharine Roth (Cosmetics.) on 27 December 2000@01:12:27.
Catharine Roth (Added link, raised status.) on 27 December 2000@01:19:14.
David Whitehead (rearranged and augmented (re nickname) notes) on 11 June 2003@05:46:32.
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David Whitehead (another x-ref) on 23 January 2014@06:03:45.
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