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Headword:
*pota/mwn
Adler number: pi,2127
Translated headword: Potamo, Potamon
Vetting Status: high
Translation: [Potamo] of Mitylene; son of
Lesbonax.[1] Rhetor. He was a sophist in Rome under Caesar
Tiberius.[2] Once when he was going back to his native city the emperor supplied him with the following passport: 'If anyone should dare to harm Potamo son of
Lesbonax, let him consider whether he can make war on me'. He wrote
On Alexander of Macedon;
Annals of [the] Samians;[3]
Encomium of Brutus;
Encomium of Caesar;
On the Perfect Orator.
*pota/mwn, *mitulhnai=os, ui(o\s *lesbw/naktos, r(h/twr. e)sofi/steusen e)n *(rw/mh| e)pi\ *kai/saros *tiberi/ou. kai/ pote au)tou= e)s th\n patri/da e)panio/ntos, o( basileu\s e)fodia/zei toioi=sde gra/mmasi: *pota/mwna *lesbw/naktos ei)/ tis a)dikei=n tolmh/soi, skeya/sqw, ei)/ moi dunh/setai polemei=n. e)/graye peri\ *)aleca/ndrou tou= *makedo/nos, *(/orous *sami/wn, *brou/tou e)gkw/mion, *kai/saros e)gkw/mion, *peri\ telei/ou r(h/toros.
Notes:
c.75 BC- AD 15. See generally RE Potamon(3); OCD4 Potamon(1); FGrH 147.
[1]
lambda 307:
Lesbonax.
[2] Only just: see dates above.
[3] The Suda mss transmit this noun as
o(/rous, which Adler prints; it should be
w(/rous.
Translated by: Malcolm Heath on 25 May 2002@08:15:35.
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