Acusilaus

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Acusilaus, Acusilas, or Akousilaos (

FGrHist 2) whose fragments were collected in Felix Jacoby's Die Fragmente der griechischen Historiker
.

Acusilaus was called the son of Cabras or Scabras, and it is not known whether he was of

Peloponnesian or Boeotian Argos. Possibly there were two of the name. He is reckoned by some among the Seven Sages of Greece.[2]

According to the

Ionic dialect. Plato is the earliest writer by whom he is mentioned.[5] The works which bore the name of Acusilaus in a later age were spurious.[6]

References

  1. ^ Willian smith says in his DGRBM that it is from "Dict. of Ant. p. 575, a", however, what dictionary does dict. Of Ant is representing is unclear. It may as well be "Dictionary of Antiquities" but still the book and author is unclear.
  2. ^ Smith, William (1867), "Acusilaus", in Smith, William (ed.), Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology, vol. 1, Boston, MA, p. 18, archived from the original on 2009-10-18, retrieved 2007-10-12{{citation}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link)
  3. ^ Dowden, p. 55; Suda, s.v. Ἀκουσίλαος
  4. ^ Clem. Strom. vi. p. 629, a
  5. ^ Plato, Symposium p. 178, b
  6. ^ Suda, Ἑκαταῖος Μιλήσιος, Ἱστορῆσαι, Συγγράφω

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