Apollonides of Nicaea

Apollonides of Nicaea (Ancient Greek: Ἀπολλωνίδης ὁ Νικαεύς) lived in the time of the Roman emperor Tiberius, to whom he dedicated a commentary on the Silloi of the Pyrrhonist philosopher Timon of Phlius.[1] Diogenes Laërtius, in his Lives and Opinions of Eminent Philosophers, mentions Apollonides in a way that can be interpreted that both he and Apollonides were Pyrrhonists.[2]

All of Apollonides' works are lost. In addition to the commentary on the Silloi these works include:

A commentary on the orations of Demosthenes (περὶ παραπρεσβείας).[3]
On fictitious stories (περὶ κατεψευσμένων), of which the third and eighth books are mentioned.[4][5]
A work on proverbs.[6]
A work on Ion, the tragic poet.[7]

An Apollonides, without any statement as to what was his native country, is mentioned by Strabo,[8] Pliny the Elder,[9] and by the Scholiast on Apollonius of Rhodes,[10] as the author of a work called Circumnavigation of Europe (περίπλος τῆς Εὐρώπης).

Stobaeus quotes some senarii from an Apollonides who may be the same person as Apollonides of Nicaea.[11]

Notes

Diogenes Laërtius, Lives and Opinions of Eminent Philosophers 9.109
R.D. Hicks, Diogenes Laertius, Lives of Eminent Philosophers Book IX, Chapter 12, Footnote 1 "In favour of the translation adopted by most scholars it may be urged that Strabo calls the Stoics οι ἡμέτερ οι, just as Cicero calls the Academics "nostri" ... 'a Sceptic like myself,'" http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus%3Atext%3A1999.01.0258%3Abook%3D9%3Achapter%3D12#notec
Ammon. s. v. ὄφλειν
Ammon. s. v. κατοίκησις
Anonym. in Vita Arati.
Stephanus of Byzantium, Ethnica s. v. Τέρινα
Harpocration s. v. Ἴων
Strabo, Geographica vii. p.309, xi. pp. 523, 528
Pliny the Elder, Natural History 7.2
Apollonius of Rhodes, 4.983, 1174
Florileg. 67.3, 6

This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Schmitz, Leonhard (1870). "Apollonides". In Smith, William (ed.). Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology. 1. p. 237.

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[1] Diogenes Laërtius, Lives and Opinions of Eminent Philosophers 9.109

[2] R.D. Hicks, Diogenes Laertius, Lives of Eminent Philosophers Book IX, Chapter 12, Footnote 1 "In favour of the translation adopted by most scholars it may be urged that Strabo calls the Stoics οι ἡμέτερ οι, just as Cicero calls the Academics "nostri" ... 'a Sceptic like myself,'" http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus%3Atext%3A1999.01.0258%3Abook%3D9%3Achapter%3D12#notec

[3] Ammon. s. v. ὄφλειν

[4] Ammon. s. v. κατοίκησις

[5] Anonym. in Vita Arati.

[6] Stephanus of Byzantium, Ethnica s. v. Τέρινα

[7] Harpocration s. v. Ἴων

[8] Strabo, Geographica vii. p.309, xi. pp. 523, 528

[9] Pliny the Elder, Natural History 7.2

[10] Apollonius of Rhodes, 4.983, 1174

[11] Florileg. 67.3, 6