Cleostratus

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SCHOL. EURIP. Rhes. 528 ὁ μὲν οὖν Παρμενίσκος ‘ πρῶτα σημεῖα ‘ φησὶ λέγεσθαι τὰς τοῦ σκορπίου πρώτας μοίρας διὰ τὸ ὑπὸ τῶν ἀρχαίων οὕτως αὐτὰς λέγεσθαι, διότι ταύταις ὁ Βοώτης ἅμα ἄρχεται καταδύεσθαι. Κλεόστρατον γοῦν τὸν Τενέδιον ἀρχαῖον 〈ὄντα ἀστρολόγον εἰπεῖν〉 οὕτως· ἀλλ’ ὁπόταν τρίτον ἦμαρ ἐπ’ ὀγδώκοντα μένηισι 〈Ἀρκτοφύλαξ φαίνων, τότε δὴ σημήϊα πρῶτα〉 σκορπίου εἰς ἅλα πίπτει ἅμ’ ἠοῖ φαινομένηφι.

Parmenisco dunque dice che «primi segni» si chiamano le prime parti dello Scorpione, perché esse cosi eran chiamate dagli antichi; perciò insieme con queste incomincia a tramontare Boote. Cleostrato di Tenedo, invero, antico 〈astronomo, disse〉 cosi:

Ma quando il terzo giorno dopo gli ottanta indugi
〈Artofilace appaia, allora i segni primi〉
dello scorpione in mare cadono insieme all’aurora sorgente.

Italian · Michele Losacco · Michele Losacco, Introduzione alla storia della filosofia greca. Appendice di testi tradotti (Bari: Gius. Laterza & Figli, 1929), p. 203

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SCHOL. EURIP. Rhes. 528
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Hermann Diels, Die Fragmente der Vorsokratiker, 4th edition, volume II (1922), pp. 197; ancient running text.
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All existing modern-language translation text is preserved. The same quoted ancient passage remains paired.

The linked scan supplies the historical text independently of Eulogikon. Translation wording is unchanged. Existing square/angle brackets in the ancient passage retain the historical restoration or deletion marks.

Hermann Diels, Die Fragmente der Vorsokratiker, 4th edition, volume II (1922), pp. 197; ancient running text. View original source ↗

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Complete scholion and verse. Historical supplements in angle brackets are retained. Losacco’s explanatory footnote is not represented as part of the ancient quotation

Italian · Michele Losacco · Michele Losacco, Introduzione alla storia della filosofia greca. Appendice di testi tradotti (Bari: Gius. Laterza & Figli, 1929), p. 203 Published translation ↗

Public-domain historical translation in the United States and life-plus-70 jurisdictions: published 1929; Michele Losacco (1871–1944).

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Italian · Michele Losacco. Michele Losacco, Introduzione alla storia della filosofia greca. Appendice di testi tradotti (Bari: Gius. Laterza & Figli, 1929), p. 203. Default reading. Published translation ↗ Paired original ↗
Translation: Public-domain historical translation in the United States and life-plus-70 jurisdictions: published 1929; Michele Losacco (1871–1944).
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DK 6 B 2LATIN WITNESS

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Signa deinde in eo Cleostratus, et prima Arietis ac Sagittarii.

Afterwards Cleostratus made the signs in it, first marking those of Aries and Sagittarius.

John Bostock and Henry Thomas Riley · The Natural History of Pliny, vol. I (London: Henry G. Bohn, 1855), p. 27, book II.6 (modern II.31)

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Pliny the Elder
Natural History · II.31 (II.6 in Bostock and Riley)
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Pliny, Natural History II.6 (modern II.31)
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Signa deinde in eo Cleostratus, et prima Arietis ac Sagittarii.
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Hermann Diels, Die Fragmente der Vorsokratiker, 4th edition, volume II (1922), pp. 198; ancient running text.
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Notes & source

The continuous excerpt ends before the statement about Atlas, matching the retained Latin. Only the terminal semicolon is changed to a full stop.

The pronoun “it” refers to the zodiacal circle discussed immediately before this sentence in Pliny. No explanatory words are inserted into the historical English.

Hermann Diels, Die Fragmente der Vorsokratiker, 4th edition, volume II (1922), pp. 198; ancient running text. View original source ↗

English: John Bostock and Henry Thomas Riley · The Natural History of Pliny, vol. I (London: Henry G. Bohn, 1855), p. 27, book II.6 (modern II.31) Published translation ↗

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English · John Bostock and Henry Thomas Riley. The Natural History of Pliny, vol. I (London: Henry G. Bohn, 1855), p. 27, book II.6 (modern II.31). Default reading. Published translation ↗ Paired original ↗
Source pages: 1 · 2
Translation: Public domain (historical edition; publication and contributor dates documented) · Licence terms ↗
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French · Émile Littré. Pline l’Ancien, Histoire naturelle (1848), II6.3 (modern II31). Published translation ↗ Paired original ↗
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Italian · Michele Losacco. Michele Losacco, Introduzione alla storia della filosofia greca. Appendice di testi tradotti (Bari: Gius. Laterza & Figli, 1929), p. 203. Published translation ↗ Paired original ↗
Translation: Public-domain historical translation in the United States and life-plus-70 jurisdictions: published 1929; Michele Losacco (1871–1944).
Original edition: Historical original edition: public domain under the recorded term review.

DK 6 B 3LATIN WITNESS

Available translations: Italian

HYGIN. astron. II 13 haedos Cl. Tenedius dicitur inter sidera ostendisse.

Si dice che Cleostrato di Tenedo indicò tra gli astri i capretti.

Italian · Michele Losacco · Michele Losacco, Introduzione alla storia della filosofia greca. Appendice di testi tradotti (Bari: Gius. Laterza & Figli, 1929), p. 203

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Original-text edition
Hermann Diels, Die Fragmente der Vorsokratiker, 4th edition, volume II (1922), pp. 198; ancient running text.
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Notes & source

All existing modern-language translation text is preserved. The same quoted ancient passage remains paired.

The linked scan was compared directly with this ancient quotation. Translation wording is unchanged.

Diels quotes dicitur inter sidera ostendisse without primus; the historical Latin is displayed. Losacco’s published Italian retains the interpretive per primo. This edition difference is explicit, not a claim of identical Latin.

Hermann Diels, Die Fragmente der Vorsokratiker, 4th edition, volume II (1922), pp. 198; ancient running text. View original source ↗

Original edition: Historical original edition: public domain under the recorded term review.

Complete sentence in Losacco. His rendering does not separately express the Latin primus; this small historical omission is recorded without supplying new wording

Italian · Michele Losacco · Michele Losacco, Introduzione alla storia della filosofia greca. Appendice di testi tradotti (Bari: Gius. Laterza & Figli, 1929), p. 203 Published translation ↗

Public-domain historical translation in the United States and life-plus-70 jurisdictions: published 1929; Michele Losacco (1871–1944).

Available translations & credits

Italian · Michele Losacco. Michele Losacco, Introduzione alla storia della filosofia greca. Appendice di testi tradotti (Bari: Gius. Laterza & Figli, 1929), p. 203. Default reading. Published translation ↗ Paired original ↗
Translation: Public-domain historical translation in the United States and life-plus-70 jurisdictions: published 1929; Michele Losacco (1871–1944).
Original edition: Historical original edition: public domain under the recorded term review.

DK 6 B 4LATIN WITNESS

Available translations: French · Italian

hanc octaëteridam vulgo creditum est ab Eudoxo Cnidio institutam, sed alii Cleostratum Tenedium primum ferunt composuisse

L’institution de cette octaétéride est généralement attribuée à Eudoxe de Cnide ; mais c’est à Cléostrate de Ténédos qu’appartient, dit-on, l’honneur de l’avoir inventée.

French · Jacques Mangeart · Censorinus, De die natali (1843), chapter 18.5

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A source citation has not yet been identified for this reading.

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Original-text edition
Hermann Diels, Die Fragmente der Vorsokratiker, 4th edition, volume II (1922), pp. 198; ancient running text.
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Notes & source

All existing modern-language translation text is preserved. The same quoted ancient passage remains paired.

The linked scan was compared directly with this ancient quotation. Translation wording is unchanged.

The scanned Diels Latin reads sed alii Cleostratum, replacing the previous sed hanc Cleostratum. Both published translations report the attribution to Cleostratus; their wording is retained.

Additional source context is not reproduced here because its complete text has not been checked against the cited historical edition. The paired ancient text and historical translation are retained.

Hermann Diels, Die Fragmente der Vorsokratiker, 4th edition, volume II (1922), pp. 198; ancient running text. View original source ↗

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Only the first complete sentence is paired here. The following Latin account of later variations of the eight-year cycle is not reproduced with this reading

French · Jacques Mangeart · Censorinus, De die natali (1843), chapter 18.5 Published translation ↗

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French · Jacques Mangeart. Censorinus, De die natali (1843), chapter 18.5. Default reading. Published translation ↗ Paired original ↗
Translation: Public domain
Original edition: Historical original edition: public domain under the recorded term review.
Italian · Michele Losacco. Michele Losacco, Introduzione alla storia della filosofia greca. Appendice di testi tradotti (Bari: Gius. Laterza & Figli, 1929), p. 203–204. Published translation ↗ Paired original ↗
Translation: Public-domain historical translation in the United States and life-plus-70 jurisdictions: published 1929; Michele Losacco (1871–1944).
Original edition: Historical original edition: public domain under the recorded term review.

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