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Headword:
*ti/mwn
Adler number: tau,631
Translated headword: Timon
Vetting Status: high
Translation: From Phlius,[1] and himself a philosopher,[2] of the Pyrrhonic school, who wrote the so-called Silli or censures of philosophers in three books.
Greek Original:*ti/mwn, *flia/sios, kai\ au)to\s filo/sofos, th=s *pu/rrwnos a)gwgh=s, o( gra/yas tou\s kaloume/nous *si/llous h)/toi yo/gous tw=n filoso/fwn bibli/a g#.
Notes:
Timon of Phlius (c.320-c.230 BCE), a skeptic philosopher and a pupil of Stilpo the Megarian (
sigma 1114) and Pyrrho of Elis (
pi 3238). See generally Gisela Striker in OCD(4) 1484, s.v. Timon(2).
The
Silli were lampoons, some of which were directed against the dogmatic philosophers. See
Diogenes Laertius 9.109-116, esp.111-112, and cf.
sigma 410 and
sigma 415.
[1] In the NE Peloponnese (Greece).
[2] cf.
tau 630.
Nestle, W. 'Timon (13)' in RE 6A,2 cols.1301-1303
Keywords: biography; ethics; geography; philosophy
Translated by: Tony Natoli on 19 February 2003@02:48:12.
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