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Headword:
*fereku/dhs
Adler number: phi,216
Translated headword: Pherekydes, Pherecydes
Vetting Status: high
Translation: Of
Athens, older than the one from
Syros, who, it is said, collected the
writings of Orpheus. He wrote
Earth-born [Men], a work about the ancient history of Attica in ten books;
Exhortations in hexameters. Porphyrios accepts no one older than the earlier [of these two
Pherekydes'], and considers him the sole inventor of [prose] composition.[1]
*fereku/dhs, *)aqhnai=os, presbu/teros tou= *suri/ou, o(\n lo/gos ta\ *)orfe/ws sunagagei=n. e)/grayen *au)to/xqonas: e)/sti de\ peri\ th=s *)attikh=s a)rxaiologi/as e)n bibli/ois i#: *paraine/seis di' e)pw=n. *porfu/rios de\ tou= prote/rou ou)de/na presbu/teron de/xetai, a)ll' e)kei=non mo/non h(gei=tai a)rxhgo\n suggrafh=s.
Notes:
FGrH 3 T2. See also
phi 214 (with more extensive notes and references) and
phi 217; OCD4
Pherecydes(2).
[1] FGrH 260 F21. (
Eusebius put him in Olympiad 81.1: 456 BCE.)
Translated by: William Hutton on 21 February 2001@15:49:32.
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