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Headword:
Chilôn
Adler number: chi,311
Translated headword: Chilon
Vetting Status: high
Translation: [Genitive] Chilonos; son of Damagetos; a Lakedaimonian, one of the Seven Sages.
[The man] who was brief of speech. Hence
Aristagoras of Miletos called this manner [of speaking] Chilonian.[1]
Also [sc. attested is the phrase] 'Chilonian way',[2] [meaning] brevity of speech. For Chilon was brief of speech.
Greek Original:Chilôn, Chilônos, Damagêtou, Lakedaimonios, heis tôn hepta sophôn. hos ên brachulogos. hothen Aristagoras ho Milêsios touton ton tropon Chilôneion kalei. kai Chilôneios tropos, hê brachulogia. ho gar Chilôn brachulogos ên.
Notes:
Chilon was an ephor in
Sparta c.556 BCE. The Suda is drawing on the material about him in
Diogenes Laertius 1.68-73, esp. 68 and 72. See also OCD(4) under 'Chilon' (p.310) and 'Seven Sages' (p.1357).
[1] For his famous visit to
Sparta (
Herodotus 5.49-51) cf.
omicroniota 91; see also
upsilon 306 on him.
[2] From Diog. Laert. (above); accusative case there.
Keywords: biography; dialects, grammar, and etymology; geography; history; proverbs; rhetoric
Translated by: Susan Shapiro on 9 July 1999@14:01:31.
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