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425 BC (search for this): entry theognis-bio-2
third prize, in competition with Euripides and Nicomachus. It is stated by the scholiast on Aristophanes, by Harpocration (s. v.), and by Suidas (s. v.), on the authority of Xenophon, in the 2d Book of the Hellenics, that Theognis was one of the Thirty Tyrants; and perhaps, therefore, the name *Qeoge/nhs, in the passage of Xenophon referred to (Hell. 2.3.2), should be altered to *Qe/ugnis. According to these statements Theognis began to exhibit tragedies before the date of the Acharnians, B. C. 425, and continued his poetical career down to the date of the Thesmophoriazusae, B. C. 411, and was still conspicuous in public life in B. C. 404. Two lines are referred to by some writers, as quoted from a tragedy of Theognis, entitled *Que/sths, by Stobaeus (92.5); but a careful examination of the passage shows that it refers to the Thyestes of Euripides. We have, however, one line from Theognis, quoted by Demetrius (de Eloc. 85) : parati/qetai to\ to/con, fo/rmigg' a)/xordon. The metap
411 BC (search for this): entry theognis-bio-2
t on Aristophanes, by Harpocration (s. v.), and by Suidas (s. v.), on the authority of Xenophon, in the 2d Book of the Hellenics, that Theognis was one of the Thirty Tyrants; and perhaps, therefore, the name *Qeoge/nhs, in the passage of Xenophon referred to (Hell. 2.3.2), should be altered to *Qe/ugnis. According to these statements Theognis began to exhibit tragedies before the date of the Acharnians, B. C. 425, and continued his poetical career down to the date of the Thesmophoriazusae, B. C. 411, and was still conspicuous in public life in B. C. 404. Two lines are referred to by some writers, as quoted from a tragedy of Theognis, entitled *Que/sths, by Stobaeus (92.5); but a careful examination of the passage shows that it refers to the Thyestes of Euripides. We have, however, one line from Theognis, quoted by Demetrius (de Eloc. 85) : parati/qetai to\ to/con, fo/rmigg' a)/xordon. The metaphor in this line is referred to by Aristotle (Aristot. Rh. 3.11), in conjunction with an
404 BC (search for this): entry theognis-bio-2
as (s. v.), on the authority of Xenophon, in the 2d Book of the Hellenics, that Theognis was one of the Thirty Tyrants; and perhaps, therefore, the name *Qeoge/nhs, in the passage of Xenophon referred to (Hell. 2.3.2), should be altered to *Qe/ugnis. According to these statements Theognis began to exhibit tragedies before the date of the Acharnians, B. C. 425, and continued his poetical career down to the date of the Thesmophoriazusae, B. C. 411, and was still conspicuous in public life in B. C. 404. Two lines are referred to by some writers, as quoted from a tragedy of Theognis, entitled *Que/sths, by Stobaeus (92.5); but a careful examination of the passage shows that it refers to the Thyestes of Euripides. We have, however, one line from Theognis, quoted by Demetrius (de Eloc. 85) : parati/qetai to\ to/con, fo/rmigg' a)/xordon. The metaphor in this line is referred to by Aristotle (Aristot. Rh. 3.11), in conjunction with an equally bold one from Timotheus which Aristotle mentio