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Headword:
*qalh=s
Adler number: theta,17
Translated headword: Thales
Vetting Status: high
Translation: Son of Examyas and Kleobouline; Milesian, but as
Herodotos [says] Phoenician.[1] He lived before the time of Kroisos, in the 35th Olympiad,[2] but according to Phlegon he was already known in the 7th.[3] He wrote on astronomical phenomena in hexameters,
On the Equinox, and many other works. He died an old man, while watching a sports event, being squeezed by the crowd and fainting from the heat.
Thales was the first to have the name of Sage, and first proclaimed the soul immortal, and understood eclipses and equinoxes.[4] His apophthegms are very numerous: "know thyself" is the one constantly repeated.[5] For "make a pledge and suffer for it" belongs rather to Chilon, who appropriated it.[6] Also[7] "nothing in excess."
*qalh=s, *)ecamu/ou kai\ *kleobouli/nhs, *milh/sios, w(s de\ *(hro/dotos *foi=nic: gegonw\s pro\ *kroi/sou, e)pi\ th=s le# o)lumpia/dos, kata\ de\ *fle/gonta gnwrizo/menos h)/dh e)pi\ th=s z#. e)/graye peri\ metew/rwn e)n e)/pesi, *peri\ i)shmeri/as, kai\ a)/lla polla/. e)teleu/thse de\ ghraio/s, qew/menos gumniko\n a)gw=na, pilhqei\s de\ u(po\ tou= o)/xlou kai\ e)kluqei\s u(po\ tou= kau/matos. prw=tos de\ *qalh=s to\ tou= sofou= e)/sxen o)/noma kai\ prw=tos th\n yuxh\n ei)=pen a)qa/naton e)klei/yeis te kai\ i)shmeri/as katei/lhfen. a)pofqe/gmata de\ au)tou= plei=sta: kai\ to\ qrullou/menon: gnw=qi sauto/n. to\ ga/r, e)ggu/a, pa/ra d' a)/ta, *xi/lwno/s e)sti ma=llon, i)diopoihsame/nou au)to/: kai\ to/, mhde\n a)/gan.
Notes:
OCD4 s.v. '
Thales' and 'Seven Sages'. See also
theta 18 (and
theta 19). The material of the present entry has close affinities with parts of the biography of Th. by
Diogenes Laertius (1.22-23 and 39-40).
[1] i.e. by descent (
Herodotus 1.170.3, web address 1).
[2] 640-637.
[3] 752-749. (For Phlegon see
phi 527.)
[4] For
Thales' prediction of a solar eclipse (probably May 28, 585) see
Herodotus 1.74 (web address 2, cf. J. Burnet,
Early Greek Philosophy 35), and under
theta 18.
[5] cf.
gamma 333 and
gamma 334.
[6] See Diog.Laert. 2.73. (For Chilon see
chi 311.)
[7] Meaning also attributed, by some, to Chilon: see Diog.Laert. 2.39.
Web address 1,
Web address 2
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Translated by: Ross Scaife ✝ on 28 November 2001@16:58:01.
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