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Headword:
*eu)/hnos
Adler number: epsilon,3476
Translated headword: Euenos, Euenus
Vetting Status: high
Translation: They record that two poets [of this name] wrote elegies, both of them Parians.
Greek Original:*eu)/hnos: du/o a)nagra/fousi gegra/fqai e)legei/wn poihta/s, kai\ a)mfote/rous *pari/ous.
Notes:
Abridged from Harpokration s.v., commenting on
Hyperides fr. 58 Jensen.
"Euenus, of
Paros (5th cent. BC), rhetorician and sophist, wrote some elegiac and other verse, of which fragments survive; to be distinguished from two (?) homonymous later epigrammatists" (M.L. West in OCD(4) s.v., p.546).
Keywords: biography; geography; poetry; rhetoric
Translated by: David Whitehead on 21 November 2000@07:33:07.
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