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Smyrna – Magnes? Should we include him? #224

Closed sasansom closed 9 years ago

davidfdriscoll commented 9 years ago

What's wrong with him?

davidfdriscoll commented 9 years ago

keeping magnes.

davidfdriscoll commented 8 years ago

[Magnes], a man from Smyrna,[1] beautiful in appearance -- none more so -- and expert in both poetry and music... Their[5] relatives were vexed at the shame, and making a pretence that in his poems Magnes had sung of the bravery of Lydians in a cavalry-battle against Amazons,[6] while saying nothing of them, they grasped and tore off his clothing and loosened his hair and applied every [possible] humiliation.

Μάγνης, ἀνὴρ Σμυρναῖος, καλὸς τὴν ἰδέαν, εἴ τις καὶ ἄλλος, ποιήσει τε καὶ μουσικῇ δόκιμος... οἱ δὲ τούτου συγγενεῖς ἀχθόμενοι ἐπὶ τῇ αἰσχύνῃ, πρόφασιν ποιησάμενοι ὅτι ἐν τοῖς ἔπεσιν ᾖσεν ὁ Μάγνης Λυδῶν ἀριστείαν ἐν ἱππομαχίᾳ πρὸς Ἀμαζόνας, αὐτῶν δὲ οὐδὲν ἐμνήσθη, ἐπαί̈ξαντες περικατέρρηξαν τε τὴν ἐσθῆτα καὶ τὰς κόμας ἐξέκειραν καὶ πᾶσαν λώβην προσέθεσαν.

I would link to the Suda entry but I don't see a way of doing that.