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Headword:
*(hraklei/dhs
Adler number: eta,462
Translated headword: Herakleides, Heracleides, Heraclides
Vetting Status: high
Translation: [a] Of
Oxyrhynchus.[1] Philosopher; the son of Sarapion; he was nicknamed Lembus.[2] He lived under
Ptolemy VI, who made the treaty with
Antiochus.[3] He wrote philosophical and other works.
[b]
Heraclides of
Lycia,[4] a sophist, said: 'Nicetes purified', unaware that he was fitting Pygmies' spoils onto a colossus.[5]
*(hraklei/dhs, *)ocurugxi/ths, filo/sofos, o( tou= *sarapi/wnos, o(\s e)peklh/qh *le/mbos, gegonw\s e)pi\ *ptolemai/ou tou= e(/ktou, o(\s ta\s pro\s *)anti/oxon e)/qeto sunqh/kas. e)/graye filo/sofa kai\ a)/lla. o(/ti *(hraklei/dhs o( *lu/kios sofisth\s e)/fh, *nikh/ths o( kekaqarme/nos a)gnoh/sas a)kroqi/nia *pugmai/wn *kolossw=| e)farmo/zein.
Notes:
[1] In Egypt. See generally RE Herakleides(51); OCD4
Heraclides(3).
[2] A lembos was a small, fast boat or skiff (see
lambda 245). According to
Diogenes Laertius 5.94 the nickname arose because H wrote a
Lembeutikos logos, which leaves us little the wiser.
[3]
Ptolemy VI Philometor, reigned 180-145 BC.
[4] See generally RE Herakleides(44); PIR2 H87.
[5] This proverbial phrase (from
Philostratus,
Lives of the Sophists 1.19) is quoted twice elsewhere in the Suda, with explanatory comment: "in reference to those toiling in vain" (
alpha 1002); "perhaps in reference to those bringing together incompatible things, and especially when we compare tiny things to huge ones" (
nu 387).
Translated by: Malcolm Heath on 2 March 2001@22:47:52.
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