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	Polyaenus: Stratagems - translation
		Some of the material, especially in book 8, seems to added more for entertainment than because of any practical value; it includes hints on such topics as how to woo a tyrant's daughter and how to force your relatives to give you money.
		Polyaenus' Greek text was translated into English in 1793 by E.Shepherd, who hoped that the Stratagems would help the generals who were at that time establishing the British Empire in India.
		Shepherd's translation is antiquated and inaccurate in parts, and therefore many changes have been made in this version of it.
	www.attalus.org /translate/polyaenus.html (168 words)

	Polyaenus - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		We should not deduce from the existence of the abridgements that Polyaenus' treatise was popular in the Middle Ages; far from it.
		Polyaenus was first printed in a Latin translation, executed by Justus Vulteius, at Basel, 1549.
		Smith, William; Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology, "Polyaenus (2)", Boston, (1867)
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Polyaenus (614 words)

	Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology, page 441 (v. 3) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		claudius polyaenus, probably a freed-man of the emperor Claudius, bequeathed a house to this emperor at Prusa.
		Polyaenus likewise mentions his intention of writing a work on the memorable actions ('A^o/i^/xoi/eura) of M. Aurelius and L. Verus (Praef.
		Polyaenus was first printed in a Latin translation, executed by Justus Vulteius, at Basel, 1549, 8vo.
	www.ancientlibrary.com /smith-bio/2775.html (983 words)

	Epicurus - LoveToKnow 1911 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		277), his brother Timocrates, and his wife Leontion (formerly a hetaera), Polyaenus, Hermarchus, who succeeded Epicurus as chief of the school, Leonteus and his wife Themista, and Idomeneus, whose wife was a sister of Metrodorus.
		The garden was set apart for the use of the school; the house became the house of Hermarchus and his fellow-philosophers during his lifetime.
		Besides similar tributes in honour of his brothers and Polyaenus, he directed the trustees to be guardians of the son of Polyaenus and the son of Metrodorus; whilst the daughter of the last mentioned was to be married by the guardians to some member of the society who should be approved of by Hermarchus.
	www.1911encyclopedia.org /Epicurus (3582 words)

	Polyaenus of Lampsacus
		Polyaenus of Lampsacus (in Greek Πoλυαινoς Λαμπσακoυ; c.
		His friendship with Epicurus started after the latter's escape from Mytilene in 307 or 306 BC when he opened a philosophical school at Lampsacus associating himself with other citzens of the town, like Pytocles, Colotes, Idomeneus.
		It was against this treatise that another Epicurean, Demetrius Lacon, wrote Unsolved questions of Polyaenus (in Greek Πρoς τας Πoλυαινoυ απoριας) in the 2nd century BC.
	www.mlahanas.de /Greeks/Bios/PolyaenusOfLampsacus.html (311 words)

	Polyaenus
		He dedicated his work to Marcus Aurelius (161–180) and Verus (161–169), while they were engaged in the Parthian war (162 - 165), about 163 CE, at which time, he says, he was too old to accompany them in their campaigns.
		The book has come down to us in a single copy of the 13th century, which was once of Michel Apostolios and is now in the Laurentian Library in Florence.
		These summaries must not make us think that Polyaenus' treatise was popular in the Middle Ages; far from it, the abridgements seemed to have brought to forget the original work which, rarely cited by Byzantine sources.
	www.mlahanas.de /Greeks/Bios/Polyaenus.html (621 words)

	Polyaenus
		Polyaenus was born in Bithynia, but his family was from
		Polyaenus is interested in the technique of war, not in history for its own sake.
		It is interesting to notice that Polyaenus stresses Greek history and ignores the part that would have been most useful: the history of the Roman imperial
	www.livius.org /pn-po/polyaenus/polyaenus.htm (191 words)

	ARVANTA- / OROTES- (CAIS) © (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		In 386/5 B.C.E. he was the chief of the Persian infantry in the war against the Cyprian king Euagoras (Diodorus 15.2.1f.).
		After having wrongfully accused the commander of the navy, his fellow-satrap Tiribazus, who then was taken prisoner and sent to the royal court but was finally acquitted and reinstalled, Orontes had made peace in a form which was advantageous for Euagoras and therefore was not accepted by the king (Diodorus 15.8.3–9.2; 10.2–11.1; Polyaenus 7.14.1).
		But he revolted a second time, probably owing to his dissatisfaction with the king's rewards, and launched several attacks, which were continued (as can be concluded for 354/3 B.C.E. from Demosthenes 14.31) in the reign of the new king Artaxerxes III Ochus (r.
	www.cais-soas.com /CAIS/History/hakhamaneshian/arvanta_orontes.htm (833 words)

	POLYAENUS - Online Information article about POLYAENUS (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		POLYAENUS, a Macedonian, who lived at See also:
		Rome as a rhetorician and pleader in the and See also:
		Werth der Strategemensammlung Polyans (1885); Knott, De fide et fontibus Polyaeni (1883), who largely reduces the number of the authorities consulted by Polyaenus.
	encyclopedia.jrank.org /PIG_POL/POLYAENUS.html (736 words)

	EPICURUS - Letter to Idomeneus & Last WilI - In One Part - Epicurus of Sámos - (341-270 BCE)
		And let Amynomachus and Timocrates permit Hermarchus and his associates to live in the house in Melite for the lifetime of Hermarchus.
		And let Amynomachus and Timocrates take care of Epicurus, the son of Metrodorus, and of the son of Polyaenus, so long as they study and live with Hermarchus.
		Let them make Hermarchus trustee of the funds along with themselves, in order that everything may be done in concert with him, who has grown old with me in philosophy and is left at the head of the School.
	evans-experientialism.freewebspace.com /epicurus05.htm (546 words)

	Epicurus - Last Will (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		And let Amynomachus and Timocrates permit Hermarchus and his associates to live in the house in Melite for the lifetime of Hermarchus.
		And let Amynomachus and Timocrates take care of Epicurus, the son of Metrodorus, and of the son of Polyaenus, so long as they study and live with Hermarchus.
		Let them make Hermarchus trustee of the funds along with themselves, in order that everything may be done in concert with him, who has grown old with me in philosophy and is left at the head of the School.
	www.epicurus.net /en/will.html (278 words)

	Scythia - The real meaning from Timesharetalk wikipedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		During western expansion, Ateus fought Triballs (Polyaenus, Stratagems VII, 44, 1).
		From the story of Polyaenus and Frontin follows that in the fourth century BC Scythia had a layer of dependent population, which consisted of impoverished Scythian nomads and local indigenous agricultural tribes, socially deprived, dependent and exploited, who did not participate in the wars, but were engaged in servile agriculture and cattle husbandry.
		The year 339 BC was a culminating year for the Second Scythian Kingdom, and the beginning of its decline.
	www.timesharetalk.co.uk /wiki.asp?k=Scythia (1944 words)

	DATAMES
		Despite the absence of historical details, some anecdotes from this period of his life are preserved in the account of Polyaenus (Strategemata 21.2.5; cf.
		For some time during the great satrapal revolt there was actually a danger that the entire western part of the Achaemenid empire, under the leadership of Datames with the support of the Egyptian pharaoh Tachos, might succeed in breaking away from the center and disintegrating into a number of separate autonomous states.
		At some unknown date, however, Artaxerxes finally succeeded in eliminating Datames by assassination: Mithridates, Ariobarzanes' son, who had already betrayed and captured his own aged father, persuaded Datames to agree to a personal meeting and stabbed him with a hidden sword (Diodorus, 15.91.7; cf.
	www.iranica.com /articles/v7/v7f2/v7f207.html (1548 words)

	Thracian weapons - Slings (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Polyaenus (III.9.62, see below) tells how Iphicrates, campaigning in Thrace, was harassed by Odrysian archers and slingers; he discouraged them by placing bound Odrysian prisoners in his front ranks, which persuaded their compatriots to cease fire!" Incidentally, the last passage is one of only two references to Thracian slingers I have found.
		Polyaenus 10.11 says that "the sling was a longer-range weapon than the bow, for Pryaechmes with a sling won a duel with Aeschines who had a bow." Xenophon's Anabasis agrees, as he says that a hastily organised corps of slingers was able to hold off the Persian archers.
		First, I will try to put and quote the relevant passages of Polyaenus and Appian, as you suggested, ommitted by me. I do thank you warmly.
	www.thrace.0catch.com /slings_main.htm (6590 words)

	Polyaenus - HighBeam Encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		His Stratagems, anecdotes on the ruses of war, takes much from various ancient sources now lost.
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	www.encyclopedia.com /doc/1E1-polyaenu.html (169 words)

	Amazon.com: "Polyaenus Strat": Key Phrase page (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
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		In 395, after a victory of Age- silaus near Sardis, Tissaphernes was executed and replaced by Tithraustes,...
		The stratagem was so ingenious that it later featured in the works of both Frontinus (Strat.
	www.amazon.com /phrase/Polyaenus-Strat (452 words)

	St. Patrick of Prusa - Catholic Online
		Martyr with Polyaenus and Menander, put to death in Prusa, in the Roman province of Bithynia, in Asia Minor.
		No date can be attached to the event, but The account of his death, the Acts of Patrick, is considered by scholars to be authentic, although the names of the others were probably added to the calendar over succeeding centuries.
		Certainly people can be just, kind, good whether they adhere to a particular religious faith or none at all.
	www.catholic.org /saints/saint.php?saint_id=5254 (379 words)

	Bryn Mawr Classical Review 1998.3.09 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		A small sampling of a single facet of secrecy (concealing numbers and movements), includes: Athenians e.g., Alcibiades (Xen.
		15.1 ff.), and Thrasylus (Polyaenus 1.47.1); Corinthians e.g., Thuc.
		3.10.3; Syracusans e.g., Dionysius (Polyaenus 5.2.12, Leo Byz.
	ccat.sas.upenn.edu /bmcr-cgi-dev/1998/1998-3-09.html (218 words)

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