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PHOCYLIDES , See also:

Greek gnomic poet of See also:Miletus, contemporary of Theognis, was See also:born about 56o B.C. A few fragments of his " See also:maxims " have been preserved (chiefly in the Florilegium of See also:Stobaeus), in which he expresses his contempt for the pomps and vanities of See also:rank and See also:wealth, and sets forth in See also:simple See also:language his ideas of See also:honour, See also:justice and See also:wisdom. A See also:complete didactic poem (230 hexameters) called Iloir/µa vovOernK6v or yvi;)ya1, bearing the name of Phocylides, is now considered to be the See also:work of an Alexandrian See also:Christian of Jewish origin who lived between 170 B.C. and A.D. 50. The Jewish See also:element is shown in verbal agreement with passages of the Old Testament (especially the See also:book of Sirach) ; the Christian by the See also:doctrine of the See also:immortality of the soul and the resurrection of the See also:body. Some Jewish authorities, however, maintain that there are in reality no traces of Christan doctrine to be found in the poem, and that the author was a See also:Jew. The poem was first printed at See also:Venice in 1495, and was a favourite school textbook during the See also:Reformation See also:period. See fragments and the See also:spurious poem in. T. See also:Bergk, Poetae lyrici graeci, ii. (4th ed., 1882); J. See also:Bernays Ober das Phokylideische Gedicht (1858); Phocylides, Poem of Admonition, with introduction and commentaries by J.

B. Fenling, and See also:

translation by H. D. See also:Good-win (See also:Andover, See also:Mass., 1879); F. Susemihl, Geschichte der griechischen Litteratur in der Alexandrinerzeit, (1892), ii. 642; S. Krauss' (s.v. " Pseudo-Phocylides ") in The Jewish Encyclopedia and E. See also:Schurer, Hist. of the Jewish See also:People, div. ii., vol. iii., 313–316 (Eng. trans., 1886), where full See also:bibliographies are given. There is an See also:English See also:verse translation by W. See also:Hewett (See also:Watford, 1840), The Perceptive Poem of Phocylides.

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