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Headword:
*pwli/wn
Adler number: pi,2165
Translated headword: Polio, Polion, Pollio
Vetting Status: high
Translation: Surnamed Asinius;[1] of
Tralles.[2] Sophist and philosopher. He was a sophist in Rome in the time of Pompey the Great, and succeeded
Timagenes[3] as the head of his school. He wrote an epitome of
Philochorus'
Atthis;[4]
Memoirs of the philosopher Musonius;[5] an epitome of
Diophanes'
Georgica (2 books);[6]
Against Aristotle, on Animals (10 books);
on the Roman civil war, fought between Caesar and Pompey.[7]
*pwli/wn, o( *)asi/nios xrhmati/sas, *tralliano/s, sofisth\s kai\ filo/sofos: sofisteu/sas e)n *(rw/mh| e)pi\ *pomphi/+ou tou= mega/lou kai\ diadeca/menos th\n sxolh\n *timage/nous. e)/grayen e)pitomh\n th=s *filoxo/rou *)atqi/dos, *)apomnhmoneu/mata *mouswni/ou tou= filoso/fou, e)pitomh\n tw=n *diofa/nous *gewrgikw=n e)n bibli/ois b#, pro\s *)aristote/lhn peri\ zw/|wn bibli/a i#, peri\ tou= e)mfuli/ou th=s *(rw/mhs pole/mou, o(\n e)pole/mhsan *kai=sa/r te kai\ *pomph/i+os.
Notes:
C1 BC. See generally RE Asinius(23); PIR2 A 1239; FGrH 193 (this testimonium only, plus the 'Roman Civil War' title, on which see further below).
[1] He is not to be confused with a much better-known namesake: C. Asinius Pollio (76 BC- AD 4), consul in 40 BC and, in retirement from public life, author of a history of the period 60-42. The present individual is taken to be the historian's freedman.
[2] In Caria/
Lydia (Barrington Atlas map 61 grid F1).
[3]
tau 588:
Timagenes.
[4]
phi 441:
Philochorus.
[5]
mu 1305:
Musonius -- but
Musonius is too late for this man to have written about him; hence the suggested attribution of this phrase (noted by Adler) to
pi 2166.
[6] RE
Diophanes(9).
[7] See above, n.1. Jacoby (in the commentary to FGrH 193) briefly airs two possibilities about this: that the present attribution of such a work to P. of
Tralles is the result of confusion between him and his patron, or that this was a Greek edition/translation.
Translated by: Malcolm Heath on 25 May 2002@08:20:11.
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