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Pierre Vesperini, « Isocrates in Eleusis. On an inscription mentioned in the Lives of the ten orators », Revue de philologie, de littérature et d'histoire anciennes, ID : 10670/1.465e6c...
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The pseudo-Plutarchean Lives of the ten orators mention a statue of Isocrates erected in Eleusis by Timotheus, son of Conon, on the basis of which an inscription reads: Τιµόθεος φιλίας τε χάριν ξενίην τε προτιµῶν | Ἰσοκράτους εἰκὼ τήνδ’ ἀνέθηκε θεαῖς. Such is the text transmitted by all the manuscripts of the planudean tradition. Nevertheless, in all recent editions or translations of the Lives, the reading ξενίην is corrected into ξύνεσιν. This emendation goes back to Salmasius, who based himself on the inscription text transmitted by Photius. This paper argues that the emendation is unnecessary and that the dedicant should be identified with a different Timotheus, the tyrant of Heraclea Pontica.
