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Headword:
*bi/antos
*prihne/ws
di/kh
Adler number: beta,270
Translated headword: Bias of Priene's justice
Vetting Status: high
Translation: This man [was] one of the Seven Sages. He is said to have been very clever at speaking in lawsuits; however, he used the power of his words for good.
Hipponax [writes]: "to litigate more powerfully than
Bias of
Priene."[1]
*bi/antos *prihne/ws di/kh: ou(=tos ei(=s tw=n e(pta\ sofw=n. le/getai de\ ei)s ta\s di/kas deino/tatos gegone/nai ei)pei=n: e)p' a)gaqw=| me/ntoi th=| tw=n lo/gwn i)sxu/i+ e)xrh=to. *(ippw/nac: dika/zesqai *bi/antos tou= *prihne/ws krei/sswn.
Notes:
Bias was a famous judge in the Ionian city of
Priene, c.570 BCE. See the detailed account in
Diogenes Laertius 1.82-88 and more briefly
Strabo 14.1.12.
The point of the quotation from
Hipponax (an Ionian poet and
Bias' contemporary) is that
Bias was the standard for powerful forensic speaking.
[1]
Hipponax fr. 79 Bergk; again at
delta 1055.
Reference:
OCD(4) s.v. 'Hipponax' (p.689) and 'Seven Sages' (p.1357)
Keywords: biography; daily life; ethics; geography; law; poetry; proverbs
Translated by: Susan Shapiro on 9 July 1999@14:10:11.
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