'Εκλήθη δε Στησιχόρος, ότι πρώτος κιθαρωδία | yet the improvements made by the
Himeraean
poet
χορόν έστησεν, επεί τοι πρότερον Τισίας εκαλείτο.
χορόν έστησεν, επεί τοι πρότερον Τισίας εκαλείτο.
William Smith - 1844 - Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities - c
C.
632, to have flourished
missioners, who were sent into Greece to settle the about Ol. 43, B. C. 608, and to have died in Ol.
affairs of the country, in conjunction with T. Quin- | 55. 1, B. c. 560, or Ol. 56, B. c. 556–552, at the
tius Flamininus. (Liv. xxxi. 50, xxxiii. 27, 35; age of eighty or, according to Lucian, eighty-five.
Polyb. xviii. 31. )
(Suid. s. vv. Etnolxopos, Equwvidns, Lanpw; En.
2. C. STERTINIUS, was praetor B. C. 188, and seb. Chron. Ol. 43. 1 ; Aristot. Rhet. ii. 20. $ 5;
obtained Sardinia as his province. (Liv. xxxviii. 35. ) Cyrill. Julian. i. p. 12, d. ; Lucian. Macrob. 26 ;
3. L. STERTINIUS, quaestor B. C. 168. (Liv. Clinton, F. H. vol. i. s. a. 611, vol. ii. s. aa. 556,
xlv. 14. )
553. ) Various attempts have been made to re-
4. STERTINIUS, a Stoic philosopher, whom Ho- move the slight discrepancies in the above numbers;
mce calls in fun the eighth of the wise men. but it appears better to be content with the general
(Hor. Sut. ii. 3. 33, 296, Epist. i. 12. 20. ) result, which they clearly establish, that Stesi-
5. L. STERTINIUS, the legatus of Germanicus, chorus flourished at the beginning and during the
defeated the Bructeri in A. D. 15, and found among first part of the sixth century B. C.
their bonty the eagle of the nineteenth legion, There appears, at first sight, to be a discrepancy
which had been lost in the defeat of Varus. In between these testimonies and the statement of
the course of the same year he was sent by Ger- the Parian Marble (Ep. 51), that Stesichorus the
manicus to receive the surrender of Segimerus, the poet came into Greece at the same time at which
brother of Segestes; and in the next year he was Aeschylus gained his first tragic victory, in the
despatched against the Angrivarii, a people dwell- archonship of Philocrates, 01. 73. 3, B. C. 475.
ing on the banks of the river Visurgis, whom he But this statement refers, no doubt, to a later poet
defeated, and compelled to acknowledge the supre- of the same name and family. That it cannot
macy of Rome. (Tac. Ann. i. 60, 71, ii. 8, 22. ) refer to the Stesichorus now under notice is proved,
6. STERTINIUS MAXIMUS, a rhetorician men- not only by the above testimonies, but also, as
tioned by the elder Seneca. (Controv. 9. )
Bentley has shown, by the way in which Simonides
7. STERTINIUS Avitus, a person celebrated by mentions Stesichorus, in connection with Homer,
Martial at the beginning of the ninth book of his as an ancient poet (Ath. iv. p. 172, e f. ); whereas,
Epigrams. He is apparently the same person as if the statement of the Marble applied to him, he
the L. Stertinius Avitus, who was consul suffectus must have been contemporary with Simonides.
under Domitian in A. D. 92. (Fasti. )
Still further light is thrown on this matter by
Q. STERTI'NIUS, a physician at Rome in the another clause of the Parian inscription (Ep. 74),
first century after Christ, who, according to Pliny which states that “Stesichorus the second, of Hi-
(H. N. xxix. 5), made it a favour that he was mera, conquered at Athens in 01. 102. 3," B. c. 369.
content to receive from the emperor five hundred The clear and satisfactory explanation of these
thousand sesterces per annum (or rather more than statements is, that the poetic art was, as usual,
four thousand four hundred pounds), as he might hereditary in the family of Stesichorus, and that
have made six hundred thousand sesterces (or two of his descendants, at different times, went to
rather more than five thousand three hundred | Athens to take part in the dithyrambic contests.
pounds), by his private practice. He and his There are different statements respecting the
brother, who received the same annual income from country of Stesichorus. The prevailing account
the emperor Claudius, left between them at their was that he was born at Himera, and he is some-
death, notwithstanding large sums that they had times called simply " the poet of Himera ; " but
spent in beautifying the city of Naples, the sum of others made him a native of Mataurus, or Metau-
thirty millions of sesterces, or rather more than rus, in the south of Italy (or, as some say, in Sicily),
two hundred and sixty-five thousand six hundred which was a Locrian colony. (Steph. Byz. s. r.
pounds. As these sums are considered by Pliny Matavpós ; Suid. ) Now, as Himera was only
to be very large, they may serve to give us some founded just before the poet's birth, it is probable
idea of the fortunes made at Rome by the chief that his parents migrated thither from Mataurus ;
physicians about the beginning of the empire. and here we have, as Kleine and Müller have ob-
(Penny Cyclopaedia. )
[W. A. G. ) served, the explanation of the strange tradition
STESA'GORAS (Etnoarópas. ) 1. An Athe- which made Stesichorus a son of Hesiod ; for there
nian, father of Cimon [No. 1. ], and grandfather existed among the Ozolian Locrians, at Oeneon and
of the great Miltiades. (Herod. vi. 34, 103. ) Naupactus, a race of epic poets, who claimed to be
2. Son of Cimon (No. 1), and grandson of the of the lineage of Hesiod ; and from this race we
above. He succeeded his uncle Miltiades I. in the may suppose the family of Stesichorus to have de
tyranny of the Thracian Chersonese, and continued scended. The actual connection of the poetry of
the war with the people of Lampsacus, which his Stesichorus with the old epic poetry will be ex-
predecessor had begun. Not long, however, after plained presently. Besides this mythical statement
his accession, he was assassinated by a pretended respecting Hesiod, the following names are men-
deserter from the enemy, and, as he died childless, tioned as that of the father of Stesichorus, - Eu-
was succeeded by his brother, the great Miltiades. phorbus, Euphemus, Eucleides, and Hyetes. (Suid.
(Herod. vi. 38, 39. )
(E. E. ) 8. v. ; Eudoc. ; Steph. Byz. l. c. ; Epig. Anon. ap.
STESANDER (Ethoavāpos), a musician of Brunck, Anal. vol. iii. p. 24, No. 33. )
Samos, was the first who sang Homeric hymns to According to Suidas, the poet had two brothers,
the cithara at the Pythian games. (Ath. xiv. p. a geometrician named Mamertinus, and a legislator
638, a. ; comp. Sext. Empir. adv. Math. vi. named Halianax. Other statements concerning
16. )
(P. S. ] his family, which rest upon very doubtful authority,
STESI'CHORUS (Etnolxopos), of Himera in will be found in Kleine, pp. 15, 16.
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STESICHORUS.
909
STESICLES.
His own name is said to have been at first Tisias, / with Alcman, at the head of one branch of the
which was changed to Stesichorus, because he first lyric art, the choral poetry of the Dorians ; for,
established a chorus for singing to the harp. (Suid. although he lived fifty years later than Alcman,
6. ο.
'Εκλήθη δε Στησιχόρος, ότι πρώτος κιθαρωδία | yet the improvements made by the Himeraean poet
χορόν έστησεν, επεί τοι πρότερον Τισίας εκαλείτο. ) | on the chorus were so distinct from, and so far in
The meaning of this statement will be examined pre- advance of, those introduced by the Spartan, that
sently. Of the events of his life we have only a few he well deserves to share the honour, which some
obscure accounts. Like other great poets, his birth is indeed, as we have seen, ascribed to him exclu-
fabled to have been attended by an omen ; a night. sively, of being the inventor of choral poetry. He
ingale sat upon the babe's lips, and sung a sweet was the first to break the monotony of the strophe
strain. (Christod. Ecphr. up. Jacobs, Anth. Graec. and antistrophe by the introduction of the epode,
vol. i. p. 42; Plin H. N. x. 29. ) He is said to and his metres were much more varied, and the
have been carefully educated at Catana, and after- structure of his strophes more elaborate, than those
wards to have enjoyed the friendship of Phalaris, of Alcman. His odes contained all the essential
the tyrant of Agrigentum. The latter statement elements of the perfect choral poetry of Pindar and
rests on no better authority than the spurious letters the tragedians. For an analysis of his metres, sce
of Phalaris ; but there is nothing to prevent its Kleine, sect. xi.
being true, since it is clear that Phalaris and Stesi- The subjects of his poems were chiefly heroic ;
chorus were contemporaries. Many writers relate he transferred the subjects of the old epic poetry
the fable of his being miraculously struck with to the lyric form, dropping, of course, the conti-
blindness after writing an attack upon Helen, and nuous narrative, and dwelling on isolated adven-
recovering his sight when he had composed a Pa- tures of his heroes. He also composed poems on
linodia (Paus. iii. 19. 11, &c. ; Kleine, Dissert. other subjects. His extant remains are classified
sect. vii. ) The statement that he travelled in by Kleine under the following heads. 1. Mythi-
Greece appears to be supported by some passages cal Poems, of which we have the following titles :
in the fragments of his poems, by the known usage | Αθλα, Γηρυονίς, Κέρβερος, Κύκνος, Σκύλλα, Συο-
of the early Grecian poets, and by the confused | θηραι, Ευρώπεια, Ιλίου πέρσις, Νόστοι, Ορεστεία.
tradition preserved by Suidas, that he came to 2. Hymns, Encomia, Epithalamia, Paeans : among
Catana as an exile from Pallantium in Arcadia. which were, Malivudia els 'Elévay, and 'Etibanda
For his connection with Catana, and his burial | Alov 'EA évas. 3. Erotic Poems, and Scolia: titles,
there, we have several testimonies. Suidas says Kalúka, 'Padivá. 4. A pastoral poem, entitled
that he was buried by a gate of the city, which sáovis. 5. Fables : 'Innos kal érapos, rewpyds
was called after him the Stesichoreian gate, and kal åetós, Els Aókpous Trapalveris. 6. Élegies.
that a splendid octagonal monument was erected The dialect of Stesichorus was Dorian, with an
over his tomb, having eight pillars and eight sets intermixture of the epic. His nomes were mostly
of steps and eight angles ; whence, according to in the Dorian, but sometimes also in the Phrygian
some was derived the name Στησίχορος αριθμος, | mode.
applied to the throw “ all eight” in gaming. (Suid. The fragments of Stesichorus have been printed
s. 7. Távta OKTW ; Pollux, ix. 7 ; Eustath. ad Hom. with the editions of Pindar published in 1560,
pp. 1229, 1397. )
1566, 1567, 1586, 1598, 1620, and in the collec-
There are extant two ancient epitaphs on Stesi- tions of the Greek poets published in 1568 and
chorus, the one in Greek, by Antipater (Jacobs, 1569, and recently in the collections of Schneide-
Anth. Graec. vol. i. p. 328), the other in Latin win and Bergk. They have also been edited by
(Ferrett. Mus. Lapidar. v. 36, p. 354). The peo- Suchfort, Götting. 1771, 4to. ; by Blomfield, in
ple of Thermae, the town which succeeded Himera, the Museum Criticum, vol. ii. pp. 256—272, 340
had a bronze statue of the poet, which Cicero de. -358, 504, 607, and in Gaisford's Poetae Minores
scribes as statua senilis, incurva, cum libro, summo Graeci ; and by Fr. Kleine, Berol. 1828, 8vo. The
ut putant artificio facta (Verr. ii. 35). This or last mentioned is by far the most useful edition of
another statue formed afterwards one of the trea- the fragments, and the anthorities respecting the
sures of the gymnasium of Zeuxippus at Byzantium. life and writings of the poet are collected and dis-
(Christod. Ecphr. I. c. ) There is also a bronze cussed in a dissertation prefixed to the fragments.
medal of Himera, bearing on the reverse a man (Fabric. Bibl. Graec. vol. ij. pp. 151–157 ; Müller,
standing, holding a crown in his right hand and a Hist. of Lit. of Anc. Greece, pp. 197—203 ; Bern-
lyre in his left, which some suppose to have been hardy, Grundriss d. Griech. Litt
. vol. ii. pp. 471-
struck in honour of Stesichorus.
477 ; Kleine, as above quoted. ) (P. S. )
Among the ancient writers who celebrated his STESICLEIDES (ETNOideions), an Athenian,
praises were Cicero (l. c. ), Aristeides (Orat. vol. i. wrote a catalogue of the archons and victors in the
P. 152, ed. Steph. ), Dionysius (de Comp. Verb. Olympic games. (Diog. Laërt. ii. 56. )
Fol. ii. p. 28, ed. Sylb. ), Longinus (xiii. 3), Dio STEPSICLES (ETTouriñs), an Athenian, was
Chrysostom (p. 559, d. ed. Morell. ), and Synesius sent in B. C. 373 with a force of some 600 tar-
(Insom. p. 158, b. ed. Paris. 1612), nearly all of geteers to aid the democratic party at Corcyra
whom compare him to Homer in character and against the Lacedaemonians under Mnasippus. A
style. Quintilian's testimony is, in general, to the more effective armament of 60 ships, with Timo-
same effect, but he blames the language of Stesi- theus for commander, was to follow as soon as it
chorus as diffuse (x. i. 62). Hermogenes, on the could be got ready. Meanwhile, Stesicles, with
contrary, says that his numerous epithets add sweet- the assistance of Alcetas I. , king of Epeirus,
ness to his style (de Form. Orat. ii. p. 409, ed. effected an entrance into the town under cover of
Laurent. ). For other testimonies see Kleine, night. Here he reconciled the dissensions of the
sect. ix.
democratic party, united them against the common
Stesichorus was one of the nine chiefs of lyric enemy, and conducted that series of successful
poetry recognized by the ancients He stands, I operations, which ended in the defeat and death of
i
1
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STHENELUS.
STHENIS.
Mnasippus, and the withdrawal of the Lacedae | be accompanied Heracles from Paros on his ex.
monian feet even before the arrival of Iphicrates, pedition against the Amazons, and together with
who had superseded Timotheus (MNASIPPUS). his brother Alcaeus he was appointed by Heracles
There can be no question as to the identity of the ruler of Thasos. (Apollod. ii. 5. & 9 ; comp. Apollon.
Stesicles of Xenophon with the Ctesicles of Dio- Rhod. ii. 911, who confounds him with No. 5. )
dorus. But the latter writer tells us that Ctesicles 5. A son of Actor, likewise a companion of He-
had been sent some time before to Zacynthus, to racles in his expedition against the Amazons; but
take the command against the Spartans of the he died and was buried in Paphlagonia, where he
Zacynthian exiles, whom Timotheus had restored. afterwards appeared to the Argonauts. (Apollon.
Schneider would reconcile the two authors by sup- Rhod. ii. 911. )
posing that he was ordered to proceed from Zacyn- 6. A son of Capaneus and Evadne, belonged to
thus to Corcyra ; nor does this seem so inconsistent the family of the Anaxagoridae in Argos, and was
with the language of Xenophon as Thirlwall and the father of Cylarabes (Hom. II. v. 109; Paus.
Rehdantz represent it. (Xen. Hell. vi. 2. S$ 10 ii. 18. $ 4, 22. $ 8, 30. in fin. ); but, according to
-26 ; Diod. xv. 46, 47; Schneider, ad Xen. Hell. others, his son's name was Comeles.
missioners, who were sent into Greece to settle the about Ol. 43, B. C. 608, and to have died in Ol.
affairs of the country, in conjunction with T. Quin- | 55. 1, B. c. 560, or Ol. 56, B. c. 556–552, at the
tius Flamininus. (Liv. xxxi. 50, xxxiii. 27, 35; age of eighty or, according to Lucian, eighty-five.
Polyb. xviii. 31. )
(Suid. s. vv. Etnolxopos, Equwvidns, Lanpw; En.
2. C. STERTINIUS, was praetor B. C. 188, and seb. Chron. Ol. 43. 1 ; Aristot. Rhet. ii. 20. $ 5;
obtained Sardinia as his province. (Liv. xxxviii. 35. ) Cyrill. Julian. i. p. 12, d. ; Lucian. Macrob. 26 ;
3. L. STERTINIUS, quaestor B. C. 168. (Liv. Clinton, F. H. vol. i. s. a. 611, vol. ii. s. aa. 556,
xlv. 14. )
553. ) Various attempts have been made to re-
4. STERTINIUS, a Stoic philosopher, whom Ho- move the slight discrepancies in the above numbers;
mce calls in fun the eighth of the wise men. but it appears better to be content with the general
(Hor. Sut. ii. 3. 33, 296, Epist. i. 12. 20. ) result, which they clearly establish, that Stesi-
5. L. STERTINIUS, the legatus of Germanicus, chorus flourished at the beginning and during the
defeated the Bructeri in A. D. 15, and found among first part of the sixth century B. C.
their bonty the eagle of the nineteenth legion, There appears, at first sight, to be a discrepancy
which had been lost in the defeat of Varus. In between these testimonies and the statement of
the course of the same year he was sent by Ger- the Parian Marble (Ep. 51), that Stesichorus the
manicus to receive the surrender of Segimerus, the poet came into Greece at the same time at which
brother of Segestes; and in the next year he was Aeschylus gained his first tragic victory, in the
despatched against the Angrivarii, a people dwell- archonship of Philocrates, 01. 73. 3, B. C. 475.
ing on the banks of the river Visurgis, whom he But this statement refers, no doubt, to a later poet
defeated, and compelled to acknowledge the supre- of the same name and family. That it cannot
macy of Rome. (Tac. Ann. i. 60, 71, ii. 8, 22. ) refer to the Stesichorus now under notice is proved,
6. STERTINIUS MAXIMUS, a rhetorician men- not only by the above testimonies, but also, as
tioned by the elder Seneca. (Controv. 9. )
Bentley has shown, by the way in which Simonides
7. STERTINIUS Avitus, a person celebrated by mentions Stesichorus, in connection with Homer,
Martial at the beginning of the ninth book of his as an ancient poet (Ath. iv. p. 172, e f. ); whereas,
Epigrams. He is apparently the same person as if the statement of the Marble applied to him, he
the L. Stertinius Avitus, who was consul suffectus must have been contemporary with Simonides.
under Domitian in A. D. 92. (Fasti. )
Still further light is thrown on this matter by
Q. STERTI'NIUS, a physician at Rome in the another clause of the Parian inscription (Ep. 74),
first century after Christ, who, according to Pliny which states that “Stesichorus the second, of Hi-
(H. N. xxix. 5), made it a favour that he was mera, conquered at Athens in 01. 102. 3," B. c. 369.
content to receive from the emperor five hundred The clear and satisfactory explanation of these
thousand sesterces per annum (or rather more than statements is, that the poetic art was, as usual,
four thousand four hundred pounds), as he might hereditary in the family of Stesichorus, and that
have made six hundred thousand sesterces (or two of his descendants, at different times, went to
rather more than five thousand three hundred | Athens to take part in the dithyrambic contests.
pounds), by his private practice. He and his There are different statements respecting the
brother, who received the same annual income from country of Stesichorus. The prevailing account
the emperor Claudius, left between them at their was that he was born at Himera, and he is some-
death, notwithstanding large sums that they had times called simply " the poet of Himera ; " but
spent in beautifying the city of Naples, the sum of others made him a native of Mataurus, or Metau-
thirty millions of sesterces, or rather more than rus, in the south of Italy (or, as some say, in Sicily),
two hundred and sixty-five thousand six hundred which was a Locrian colony. (Steph. Byz. s. r.
pounds. As these sums are considered by Pliny Matavpós ; Suid. ) Now, as Himera was only
to be very large, they may serve to give us some founded just before the poet's birth, it is probable
idea of the fortunes made at Rome by the chief that his parents migrated thither from Mataurus ;
physicians about the beginning of the empire. and here we have, as Kleine and Müller have ob-
(Penny Cyclopaedia. )
[W. A. G. ) served, the explanation of the strange tradition
STESA'GORAS (Etnoarópas. ) 1. An Athe- which made Stesichorus a son of Hesiod ; for there
nian, father of Cimon [No. 1. ], and grandfather existed among the Ozolian Locrians, at Oeneon and
of the great Miltiades. (Herod. vi. 34, 103. ) Naupactus, a race of epic poets, who claimed to be
2. Son of Cimon (No. 1), and grandson of the of the lineage of Hesiod ; and from this race we
above. He succeeded his uncle Miltiades I. in the may suppose the family of Stesichorus to have de
tyranny of the Thracian Chersonese, and continued scended. The actual connection of the poetry of
the war with the people of Lampsacus, which his Stesichorus with the old epic poetry will be ex-
predecessor had begun. Not long, however, after plained presently. Besides this mythical statement
his accession, he was assassinated by a pretended respecting Hesiod, the following names are men-
deserter from the enemy, and, as he died childless, tioned as that of the father of Stesichorus, - Eu-
was succeeded by his brother, the great Miltiades. phorbus, Euphemus, Eucleides, and Hyetes. (Suid.
(Herod. vi. 38, 39. )
(E. E. ) 8. v. ; Eudoc. ; Steph. Byz. l. c. ; Epig. Anon. ap.
STESANDER (Ethoavāpos), a musician of Brunck, Anal. vol. iii. p. 24, No. 33. )
Samos, was the first who sang Homeric hymns to According to Suidas, the poet had two brothers,
the cithara at the Pythian games. (Ath. xiv. p. a geometrician named Mamertinus, and a legislator
638, a. ; comp. Sext. Empir. adv. Math. vi. named Halianax. Other statements concerning
16. )
(P. S. ] his family, which rest upon very doubtful authority,
STESI'CHORUS (Etnolxopos), of Himera in will be found in Kleine, pp. 15, 16.
## p. 909 (#925) ############################################
STESICHORUS.
909
STESICLES.
His own name is said to have been at first Tisias, / with Alcman, at the head of one branch of the
which was changed to Stesichorus, because he first lyric art, the choral poetry of the Dorians ; for,
established a chorus for singing to the harp. (Suid. although he lived fifty years later than Alcman,
6. ο.
'Εκλήθη δε Στησιχόρος, ότι πρώτος κιθαρωδία | yet the improvements made by the Himeraean poet
χορόν έστησεν, επεί τοι πρότερον Τισίας εκαλείτο. ) | on the chorus were so distinct from, and so far in
The meaning of this statement will be examined pre- advance of, those introduced by the Spartan, that
sently. Of the events of his life we have only a few he well deserves to share the honour, which some
obscure accounts. Like other great poets, his birth is indeed, as we have seen, ascribed to him exclu-
fabled to have been attended by an omen ; a night. sively, of being the inventor of choral poetry. He
ingale sat upon the babe's lips, and sung a sweet was the first to break the monotony of the strophe
strain. (Christod. Ecphr. up. Jacobs, Anth. Graec. and antistrophe by the introduction of the epode,
vol. i. p. 42; Plin H. N. x. 29. ) He is said to and his metres were much more varied, and the
have been carefully educated at Catana, and after- structure of his strophes more elaborate, than those
wards to have enjoyed the friendship of Phalaris, of Alcman. His odes contained all the essential
the tyrant of Agrigentum. The latter statement elements of the perfect choral poetry of Pindar and
rests on no better authority than the spurious letters the tragedians. For an analysis of his metres, sce
of Phalaris ; but there is nothing to prevent its Kleine, sect. xi.
being true, since it is clear that Phalaris and Stesi- The subjects of his poems were chiefly heroic ;
chorus were contemporaries. Many writers relate he transferred the subjects of the old epic poetry
the fable of his being miraculously struck with to the lyric form, dropping, of course, the conti-
blindness after writing an attack upon Helen, and nuous narrative, and dwelling on isolated adven-
recovering his sight when he had composed a Pa- tures of his heroes. He also composed poems on
linodia (Paus. iii. 19. 11, &c. ; Kleine, Dissert. other subjects. His extant remains are classified
sect. vii. ) The statement that he travelled in by Kleine under the following heads. 1. Mythi-
Greece appears to be supported by some passages cal Poems, of which we have the following titles :
in the fragments of his poems, by the known usage | Αθλα, Γηρυονίς, Κέρβερος, Κύκνος, Σκύλλα, Συο-
of the early Grecian poets, and by the confused | θηραι, Ευρώπεια, Ιλίου πέρσις, Νόστοι, Ορεστεία.
tradition preserved by Suidas, that he came to 2. Hymns, Encomia, Epithalamia, Paeans : among
Catana as an exile from Pallantium in Arcadia. which were, Malivudia els 'Elévay, and 'Etibanda
For his connection with Catana, and his burial | Alov 'EA évas. 3. Erotic Poems, and Scolia: titles,
there, we have several testimonies. Suidas says Kalúka, 'Padivá. 4. A pastoral poem, entitled
that he was buried by a gate of the city, which sáovis. 5. Fables : 'Innos kal érapos, rewpyds
was called after him the Stesichoreian gate, and kal åetós, Els Aókpous Trapalveris. 6. Élegies.
that a splendid octagonal monument was erected The dialect of Stesichorus was Dorian, with an
over his tomb, having eight pillars and eight sets intermixture of the epic. His nomes were mostly
of steps and eight angles ; whence, according to in the Dorian, but sometimes also in the Phrygian
some was derived the name Στησίχορος αριθμος, | mode.
applied to the throw “ all eight” in gaming. (Suid. The fragments of Stesichorus have been printed
s. 7. Távta OKTW ; Pollux, ix. 7 ; Eustath. ad Hom. with the editions of Pindar published in 1560,
pp. 1229, 1397. )
1566, 1567, 1586, 1598, 1620, and in the collec-
There are extant two ancient epitaphs on Stesi- tions of the Greek poets published in 1568 and
chorus, the one in Greek, by Antipater (Jacobs, 1569, and recently in the collections of Schneide-
Anth. Graec. vol. i. p. 328), the other in Latin win and Bergk. They have also been edited by
(Ferrett. Mus. Lapidar. v. 36, p. 354). The peo- Suchfort, Götting. 1771, 4to. ; by Blomfield, in
ple of Thermae, the town which succeeded Himera, the Museum Criticum, vol. ii. pp. 256—272, 340
had a bronze statue of the poet, which Cicero de. -358, 504, 607, and in Gaisford's Poetae Minores
scribes as statua senilis, incurva, cum libro, summo Graeci ; and by Fr. Kleine, Berol. 1828, 8vo. The
ut putant artificio facta (Verr. ii. 35). This or last mentioned is by far the most useful edition of
another statue formed afterwards one of the trea- the fragments, and the anthorities respecting the
sures of the gymnasium of Zeuxippus at Byzantium. life and writings of the poet are collected and dis-
(Christod. Ecphr. I. c. ) There is also a bronze cussed in a dissertation prefixed to the fragments.
medal of Himera, bearing on the reverse a man (Fabric. Bibl. Graec. vol. ij. pp. 151–157 ; Müller,
standing, holding a crown in his right hand and a Hist. of Lit. of Anc. Greece, pp. 197—203 ; Bern-
lyre in his left, which some suppose to have been hardy, Grundriss d. Griech. Litt
. vol. ii. pp. 471-
struck in honour of Stesichorus.
477 ; Kleine, as above quoted. ) (P. S. )
Among the ancient writers who celebrated his STESICLEIDES (ETNOideions), an Athenian,
praises were Cicero (l. c. ), Aristeides (Orat. vol. i. wrote a catalogue of the archons and victors in the
P. 152, ed. Steph. ), Dionysius (de Comp. Verb. Olympic games. (Diog. Laërt. ii. 56. )
Fol. ii. p. 28, ed. Sylb. ), Longinus (xiii. 3), Dio STEPSICLES (ETTouriñs), an Athenian, was
Chrysostom (p. 559, d. ed. Morell. ), and Synesius sent in B. C. 373 with a force of some 600 tar-
(Insom. p. 158, b. ed. Paris. 1612), nearly all of geteers to aid the democratic party at Corcyra
whom compare him to Homer in character and against the Lacedaemonians under Mnasippus. A
style. Quintilian's testimony is, in general, to the more effective armament of 60 ships, with Timo-
same effect, but he blames the language of Stesi- theus for commander, was to follow as soon as it
chorus as diffuse (x. i. 62). Hermogenes, on the could be got ready. Meanwhile, Stesicles, with
contrary, says that his numerous epithets add sweet- the assistance of Alcetas I. , king of Epeirus,
ness to his style (de Form. Orat. ii. p. 409, ed. effected an entrance into the town under cover of
Laurent. ). For other testimonies see Kleine, night. Here he reconciled the dissensions of the
sect. ix.
democratic party, united them against the common
Stesichorus was one of the nine chiefs of lyric enemy, and conducted that series of successful
poetry recognized by the ancients He stands, I operations, which ended in the defeat and death of
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STHENELUS.
STHENIS.
Mnasippus, and the withdrawal of the Lacedae | be accompanied Heracles from Paros on his ex.
monian feet even before the arrival of Iphicrates, pedition against the Amazons, and together with
who had superseded Timotheus (MNASIPPUS). his brother Alcaeus he was appointed by Heracles
There can be no question as to the identity of the ruler of Thasos. (Apollod. ii. 5. & 9 ; comp. Apollon.
Stesicles of Xenophon with the Ctesicles of Dio- Rhod. ii. 911, who confounds him with No. 5. )
dorus. But the latter writer tells us that Ctesicles 5. A son of Actor, likewise a companion of He-
had been sent some time before to Zacynthus, to racles in his expedition against the Amazons; but
take the command against the Spartans of the he died and was buried in Paphlagonia, where he
Zacynthian exiles, whom Timotheus had restored. afterwards appeared to the Argonauts. (Apollon.
Schneider would reconcile the two authors by sup- Rhod. ii. 911. )
posing that he was ordered to proceed from Zacyn- 6. A son of Capaneus and Evadne, belonged to
thus to Corcyra ; nor does this seem so inconsistent the family of the Anaxagoridae in Argos, and was
with the language of Xenophon as Thirlwall and the father of Cylarabes (Hom. II. v. 109; Paus.
Rehdantz represent it. (Xen. Hell. vi. 2. S$ 10 ii. 18. $ 4, 22. $ 8, 30. in fin. ); but, according to
-26 ; Diod. xv. 46, 47; Schneider, ad Xen. Hell. others, his son's name was Comeles.
