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Originally appearing in Volume V03, Page 849 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.

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BIAS of See also:

PRIENE (mod. Samsun kale)

Priene in See also:

IONIA

Ionia, one of the so-called Seven Sages of See also:

GREECE

Greece, son of Teutamus, flourished about 570 B.C. He was famous for his patriotism, the See also:

NOBILITY

nobility of his See also:

CHARACTER (Gr. xapareri7p, from xap&crew, to scratch)

character and his eloquence. A number of See also:

GNOMES (Fr. gnomes, Ger. Gnomen)

gnomes or aphorisms are attributed to him, which may be found collected in F. W. A. Mullach, Fragmenta Philosophorum Graecorum (186o). He is said to have written a poem on the best means of making Ionia prosperous. His See also:

ADVICE (Fr. avis, from Lat. ad, to, and visum, viewed)

advice to its inhabitants, at the See also:

time of the See also:

Persian invasion, to migrate to See also:

SARDINIA (Gr. 'IXs'o"uva, from a fancied resemblance to a footprint in its shape, Ital. Sardegna)

Sardinia and there found a single See also:

pan-Ionic See also:

CITY (through Fr. cite, from Lat. civitas)

city (See also:

HERODOTUS (c. 484-425 B.C.)

Herodotus i. 170), has generally been regarded as See also:

HISTORICAL

historical. One much-quoted saying of his may be mentioned. When his native See also:

TOWN

town was besieged by the enemy, the inhabitants resolved to See also:

ESCAPE (in mid. Eng. eschape or escape, from the O. Fr. eschapper, modern echapper, and escaper, low Lat. escapium, from ex, out of, and cappa, cape, cloak; cf. for the sense development the Gr. iichueoOat, literally to put off one's clothes, hence to sli

escape with their most valuable belongings. One of them seeing Bias without anything, advised him to follow the example of the See also:

REST (O. Eng. rest, reste, bed, cognate with other Teutonic forms, e.g. Ger. Rast, Riiste, rest, and probably Gothic Rasta, league, i.e. resting or stopping place)

rest.

" I am doing so," said he, " for I carry all my belongings with me " (omnia mea mecum See also:

PORTO

porto). He was honoured with a splendid funeral, and a See also:

SANCTUARY (from the late Lat. sanctuarium, a sacred place)

sanctuary called Teutamium was dedicated to him. See Bohren, De Septem Sapientibus (186o).

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