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Headword:
*)arriano/s
Adler number: alpha,3868
Translated headword: Arrianos, Arrianus, Arrian
Vetting Status: high
Translation: Of Nicomedia,[1] an Epictetan philosopher;[2] known as "the new
Xenophon". He was in Rome during the reigns of the emperors Hadrian and Marcus [Aurelius] and Antoninus, and garnered honors even so far as becoming a consul himself, just as Heliconius says,[3] through the excellence of his education. He wrote a great multitude of books.[4]
*)arriano/s, *nikomhdeu\s, filo/sofos *)epikth/teios, o( e)piklhqei\s ne/os *cenofw=n. h)=n de\ e)n *(rw/mh| e)pi\ *)adrianou= kai\ *ma/rkou kai\ *)antwni/nou tw=n basile/wn, kai\ a)ciwma/twn metalabw\n kai\ me/xris au)tou= tou= u(pateu=sai, kaqa/ fhsin *(elikw/nios, dia\ th\n th=s paidei/as decio/thta. e)/graye de\ bibli/a pamplhqh=.
Notes:
c.86-160 CE. See generally OCD(4) p.169, s.v. 'Arrian (Lucius Flavius
Arrianus'.
[1] In
Bithynia.
[2] For
Epictetus see
epsilon 2424.
[3]
epsilon 851, presumably.
[4] Wholly surviving: the
Anabasis of Alexander, in 7 books, and its companion-piece the
Indika;
On Hunting. (Both of these titles, and subjects, take
Xenophon as a model.) Partially surviving or lost:
Affairs after Alexander;
Bithyniaka, 8 books;
Parthika, 17 books;
Periplous;
On Tactics;
Order of Battle against the Alans.
Translated by: Jennifer Benedict on 12 July 2001@14:38:25.
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