Name: Testimonia
Author: Philochorus

These are ancient testimonies about Philochorus, the Athenian historian of the late fourth and early third centuries BC. The main entry, from the Byzantine lexicon known as the Suda, names his father Cycnus and his wife Archestrate, calls him a seer and interpreter of omens, and says he was killed by Antigonus after being accused of favouring the Ptolemies. It also lists his many works, headed by the Atthis in seventeen books.

The testimonies are the main evidence for Philochorus' life and for the range of his writings, nearly all of which are lost. They show a scholar who combined religious office with historical research, and they help to frame the surviving fragments of his Atthis and his works on Athenian religion.

About this edition. The Greek text comes from the Eulogikon open corpus of public-domain editions (standard reference: FGrHist 328 T 1–8). Every word has been analyzed with odyCy, a neural language model for Ancient Greek — click or tap any word for its dictionary form, part of speech, and complete morphology, together with the full entry from the Liddell–Scott–Jones Greek–English Lexicon (LSJ).

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Testimonia

Philochorus · every word parsed

T 1
SUDA s.v. Φιλόχορος· Κύκνου Ἀθηναῖος, μάντις καὶ ἱεροσκόπος. γυνὴ δὲ αὐτῶι ἦν Ἀρχεστράτη. κατὰ δὲ τοὺς χρόνους γέγονεν ὁ Φιλόχορος Ἐρατοσθένους, ὡς ἐπιβαλεῖν πρεσβύτηι νέον ὄντα [Ἐρατοσθένει]· ἐτελεύτησε δὲ ἐνεδρευθεὶς ὑπὸ Ἀντιγόνου, ὅτι διεβλήθη προσκεκλικέναι τῆι Πτολεμαίου βασιλείαι. ἔγραψεν Ἀτθίδος βιβλία ιζ (F 1—71)· περιέχει δὲ τὰς Ἀθηναίων πράξεις καὶ βασιλεῖς καὶ ἄρχοντας ἕως Ἀντιόχου τοῦ τελευταίου τοῦ προσαγορευθέντος Θεοῦ (ἔστι δὲ πρὸς Δήμωνα)· Περὶ μαντικῆς δ (F 76—79)· Περὶ θυσιῶν α (F 80—82)· περὶ τῆς Τετραπόλεως (F 73—75)· Σαλαμῖνος κτίσιν· Ἐπιγράμματα Ἀττικά· Περὶ τῶν Ἀθήνησι ἀγώνων [βιβλία ιζ ]· Περὶ τῶν Ἀθήνησιν ἀρξάντων ἀπὸ Σωκρατίδου καὶ μέχρι Ἀπολλοδώρου· Ὀλυμπιάδας ἐν βιβλίοιςβ · Πρὸς τὴν Δήμωνος Ἀτθίδα (F 72)· Ἐπιτομὴν τῆς ἰδίας Ἀτθίδος· Ἐπιτομὴν τῆς Διονυσίου πραγματείας περὶ ἱερῶν (no. 357)· Περὶ τῶν Σοφοκλέους μύθων βιβλίαε · Περὶ Εὐριπίδου· Περὶ Ἀλκμᾶνος· Περὶ μυστηρίων τῶν Ἀθήνησι· Συναγωγὴν ἡρωίδων ἤτοι Πυθαγορείων γυναικῶν· Δηλιακά, βιβλίαβ · Περὶ εὑρημάτων· Περὶ καθαρμῶν· Περὶ συμβόλων. *[crux: τελευταίου τοῦ προσαγορευθέντος Θεοῦ]* 
T 2
PROKL. HESIOD. Opp. 810: Φιλόχορος λέγει (F 190) καὶ ἀμφότερος ἐξηγηταὶ τῶν πατρίων ἄνδρες. *[crux: ἀμφότερος]* 
T 3
DIONYS. HAL. De Din. 3 (I 302, 16 U—R): ἡμεῖς δὲ ἐρωτηθέντες ὑπέρ τε τοῦ σημείου (F 67) … φυγάδων κάθοδον ἔφαμεν προσημαίνειν … καὶ τὴν κρίσιν ἐπιτελεσθῆναι συνέβη. 
T 4
PLUTARCH. De glor. Athen. 1 p. 345E: οἱ δʼ ἄλλοι πάντες ἱστορικοί, Κλει[νό]δημοι (323 T 3), Δίυλλοι (73), Φιλόχορος, Φύλαρχος (81). 
T 5
CLEM. AL. Strom. 6, 26, 8: Μελησαγόρου (330 T 4) γὰρ ἔκλεψεν … καὶ Ἀνδροτίων (324 T 16) καὶ Φιλόχορος …… 
T 6
PLUTARCH. De Pyth. or. 19 p. 403E: Ἀλυρίου τοίνυν καὶ Ἡροδότου καὶ Φιλοχόρου καὶ Ἴστρου (334 T 5) τῶν μάλιστα τὰς ἐμμέτρους μαντείας φιλοτιμηθέντων συναγαγεῖν ἄνευ μέτρου χρησμοὺς 〈ἀνα〉γεγραφότων. *[crux: Ἀλυρίου]* 
T 7
TERTULLIAN. De an. 46 (FULGENT. Myth. 1, 14 p. 24, 16 Helm): quanti autem commentatores et affirmatores in hanc rem! Artemon, Antiphon, Strato, Philochorus, Epicharmus, Serapion, Cratippus, et Dionysius Rhodius, Hermippus, tota saeculi literatura … ceterum Epicharmus etiam summum apicem inter divinationes somniis extulit cum Philochoro Atheniensi … nam et oraculis hoc genus stipatus est orbis, ut Amphiarai apud Oropum, … Pasiphaae in Laconica. cetera cum suis et originibus et ritibus et relationibus, cum omni deinceps historia somniorum Hermippus Berytensis (IV) quinione voluminum ratiatissime exhibebit. 
T 8
SUDA s.v. Πωλίων: … σοφιστεύσας ἐν Ῥώμηι ἐπὶ Πομπηίου τοῦ Μεγάλου … ἔγραψεν ἐπιτομὴν τῆς Φιλοχόρου Ἀτθίδος. 

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