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Headword:
*sw/frwn
Adler number: sigma,893
Translated headword: Sophron
Vetting Status: high
Translation: Of Syracuse, son of
Agathocles and Damnasyllis. He lived in the era of Xerxes and
Euripides. And he wrote
Mimes to do with men [and]
Mimes to do with women; they are in prose,[1] in the Doric dialect. And they say that
Plato the philosopher always read them, so as to be sent into an occasional doze.[2]
*sw/frwn, *surakou/sios, *)agaqokle/ous kai\ *damnasulli/dos. toi=s de\ xro/nois h)=n kata\ *ce/rchn ka *eu)ripi/dhn. kai\ e)/graye *mi/mous a)ndrei/ous, *mi/mous gunaikei/ous: ei)si\ de\ kataloga/dhn, diale/ktw| *dwri/di. kai/ fasi *pla/twna to\n filo/sofon a)ei\ au)toi=s e)ntugxa/nein, w(s kai\ kaqeu/dein e)p' au)tw=n e)/sq' o(/te.
Notes:
C5 BCE; see also
sigma 894, and generally K.J. Dover in OCD4 s.v. This Suda entry is S. testimonium #1 Kassel-Austin.
[1] But of a poetic kind: see Dover.
[2] For this sense of the verb
e)ntugxa/nw see LSJ s.v. III. For
Plato see generally
pi 1707.
Diogenes Laertius 3.18 presents his connection with
Sophron differently: "
Plato, it seems, was the first to bring to
Athens the mimes of
Sophron, which had been neglected, and to draw characters in the style of that writer; a copy of the mimes, they say, was actually found under his pillow" (tr. R.D. Hicks).
Translated by: David Whitehead on 18 December 2002@04:41:58.
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