# Βίοι Σοφιστῶν 2.1-14

Philostratus the Athenian, Βίοι Σοφιστῶν, Book 2, ιδ. Ancient Greek.

Canonical: https://interlinea.aeterna-institute.org/library/greek/philostratus-the-athenian/text-6/2.1-14

Ἀθηνόδωρος δὲ ὁ σοφιστὴς τὸ μὲν ἐς πατέρα ἧκον ἐπιφανέστατος ἦν τῶν κατὰ τὴν Αἶνον, τὸ δὲ ἐς διδασκάλους καὶ παίδευσιν φανερώτατος τοῦ Ἑλληνικοῦ. Ἀριστοκλέους μὲν γὰρ ἤκουσε παῖς ἔτι, Χρήστου δὲ ἤδη ξυνιείς, ὅθεν ἀπʼ ἀμφοῖν ἐκράθη τὴν γλῶτταν ἀττικίζων τε κἀκ περιβολῆς ἑρμηνεύων. παιδεύων δὲ Ἀθήνησι κατὰ τοὺς χρόνους, οὓς καὶ Πολυδεύκης ἐπαίδευσεν, ἐπέσκωπτεν αὐτὸν ταῖς διαλέξεσιν ὡς μειρακιώδη λέγων οἱ Ταντάλου κῆποι δοκεῖν ἐμοὶ τὸ κοῦφον τοῦ λόγου καὶ ἐπιπόλαιον φαντασίᾳ προσεικάζων οὔσῃ τε καὶ οὐκ οὔσῃ. ἐμβριθὴς δὲ καὶ τὸ ἦθος γενόμενος ἐτελεύτα ἡβῶν ἔτι ἀφαιρεθεὶς ὑπὸ τῆς τύχης τὸ καὶ πρόσω ἐλάσαι δόξης.

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Philostratus the Athenian, Βίοι Σοφιστῶν, ed. Carl Ludwig Kayser. Text: The Greek Library, from the Perseus Digital Library and other open sources, CC BY-SA 4.0. Changes: apostrophes normalised and the text divided into reading sections by Interlinea.
License: CC BY-SA 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/). Source: https://thegreeklibrary.pages.lisn.upsaclay.fr/works/tlg0638.tlg003.local001/.