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Headword:
*ne/arxos
Adler number: nu,117
Translated headword: Nearchos, Nearchus
Vetting Status: high
Translation: This man went on campaign with Alexander [sc.the Great] and wrote a history about Alexander. But he told a lie: he wrote that he himself was admiral, when he was actually a helmsman.
Greek Original:*ne/arxos: ou(=tos cunestra/teusen *)aleca/ndrw| kai\ suggrafh\n sunegra/yato u(pe\r *)aleca/ndrou. e)yeu/sato de\ nau/arxon e(auto\n a)nagra/yas ei)=nai, kubernh/ths w)/n.
Note:
An incompetent summary of Arrian,
Anabasis 6.2.3. Arrian begins there by talking about the Cretan-born Nearchos, whom Alexander did appoint his admiral in 326 BCE (see generally OCD4
Nearchus); but the helmsman who pretended to be admiral, as Arrian makes clear (both here and again at 7.5.6), was Onesikritos of
Astypalaia (see
omicron 351).
Translated by: David Whitehead on 2 October 2001@07:55:30.
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