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Headword: *)onhsi/kritos
Adler number: omicron,351
Translated headword: Onesikritos, Onesicritus
Vetting Status: high
Translation:
A proper name.
Onesikritos "as an imitator, takes second place to his model."[1] That is, [to] Xenophon.
Greek Original:
*)onhsi/kritos: o)/noma ku/rion. o( de\ *)onhsi/kritos a)po/grafos e)c a)rxetu/pou deutereu/ei. toute/sti tou= *cenofw=ntos.
Notes:
Onesikritos of Astypalaia (C4 BCE; OCD4 Onesicritus; FGrH 134) wrote an encomiastic account of Alexander the Great (whom he had served as chief helmsman) supposedly modelled on the Kyroupaideia/Cyropaedia of Xenophon (xi 47). With the present entry cf. already alpha 3274.
[1] Diogenes Laertius 6.84.
Keywords: biography; definition; geography; historiography
Translated by: David Whitehead on 13 June 2001@07:31:57.
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