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Headword: Εὔδοξος
Adler number: epsilon,3429
Translated headword: Eudoxos, Eudoxus
Vetting Status: low
Translation:
Son of Aiskhines; a Knidian; philosopher, contemporary of Plato; he had three daughters, [named] Actis, Delphis, and Philtis. He was greatly inclined to astrology,[1] and wrote many things in this genre: [he wrote] Cycle of Eight Years, and in addition [he wrote] Astronomy in epic meter.
Greek Original:
Εὔδοξος, Αἰσχίνου, Κνίδιος, φιλόσοφος, Πλάτωνος ἡλικιώτης: ᾧ τρεῖς ἐγένοντο θυγατέρες, Ἀκτίς, Δελφίς, Φιλτίς. καὶ ἔσχε πρὸς ἀστρολογίαν ὑπερφυῶς ἔγραψέ τε πλεῖστα τοῦ εἴδους τούτου: καὶ Ὀκταετηρίδα, ἔτι δὲ δι' ἐπῶν Ἀστρονομίαν.
Notes:
c.390-c.340 BC.
cf. Diogenes Laertius 8.86-91 (esp. 86 & 88); generally OCD(3) pp.565-6, under Eudoxus(1); RE Eudoxos(8); and on-line biography at web address 1.
[1] Or astronomy.
Associated internet address:
Web address 1
Keywords: biography; chronology; mathematics; meter and music; philosophy; science and technology; women
Translated by: Jason Karnes on 3 May 2002@16:21:12.
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