Ion of Chios

Available translations: German

ἀρχὴ δέ μοι τοῦ λόγου· πάντα τρία καὶ οὐδὲν πλέον ἢ ἔλασσον τούτων τῶν τριῶν. ἑνὸς ἑκάστου ἀρετὴ τριάς· σύνεσις καὶ κράτος καὶ τύχη.

Anfang aber meines Wortes ist: Alles ist drei und nichts mehr oder weniger als diese drei. Eines jeden einzelnen Vorzüglichkeit eine Dreiheit: Verstand, Kraft, Glück.

German · Hermann Diels · Die Fragmente der Vorsokratiker, 2. Auflage, Band I (1906)

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The work is transmitted under the title Triagmos

Existing human translation retained verbatim; historical original-language passage covers the same translated quotation.

Complete quoted passage agrees with the 1906 running text.

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The German translation continues on printed p. 222

German · Hermann Diels · Die Fragmente der Vorsokratiker, 2. Auflage, Band I (1906) Published translation ↗

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German · Hermann Diels. Die Fragmente der Vorsokratiker, 2. Auflage, Band I (1906). Default reading. Published translation ↗ Paired original ↗
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Ἴων δὲ ὁ Χῖος ἐν τοῖς Τριαγμοῖς καὶ Πυθαγόραν εἰς Ὀρφέα ἀνενεγκεῖν τινα ἱστορεῖ.

Ion of Chios relates in the Triagmi, that Pythagoras ascribed certain works [of his own] to Orpheus.

William Wilson · Clement of Alexandria, Stromata, translated by William Wilson, Ante-Nicene Fathers II (1885)

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Clement’s complete report is translated. The parallel Diogenes report and the additional lexicographic notice are not reproduced with this reading

Published passage: Stromata I.21 (I.131)

Existing human translation retained verbatim; historical original-language passage covers the same translated quotation.

The Clement and Diogenes quotations used by the two translation options are both printed here. Larger mixed dossier withheld because it combines later bibliographical wording and differing Suda wording.

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Hermann Diels, Die Fragmente der Vorsokratiker, 2nd edition, volume I (Berlin: Weidmann, 1906), p. 222; historical running original-language text, excluding the critical apparatus. View original source ↗

English: William Wilson · Clement of Alexandria, Stromata, translated by William Wilson, Ante-Nicene Fathers II (1885) Published translation ↗

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English · William Wilson. Clement of Alexandria, Stromata, translated by William Wilson, Ante-Nicene Fathers II (1885). Default reading. Published translation ↗ Paired original ↗
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German · Hermann Diels. Die Fragmente der Vorsokratiker, 2. Auflage, Band I (1906). Published translation ↗ Paired original ↗
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Available translations: English

Ἴων μὲν οὖν ὁ ποιητὴς ἐν τοῖς δίχα μέτρου καὶ καταλογάδην αὐτῶι γεγραμμένοις φησὶν ἀνομοιότατον πρᾶγμα τῆι σοφίαι τὴν τύχην οὖσαν ὁμοιοτάτων πραγμάτων γίνεσθαι δημιουργόν.

ἔφη γὰρ οὐ φαύλως εἰπεῖν Ἴωνα περὶ τῆς τύχης ὅτι πολλὰ τῆς σοφίας διαφέρουσα πλεῖστα αὐτῆι ὅμοια ποιεῖ.

Ion the poet has written somewhere in prose, that Fortune and Wisdom, though they be very much different from one another, are nevertheless the causes of the very same effects.

Ion, said he, was happy in his expression, when he said that Fortune, though much unlike Wisdom, yet did many things very much like her;

John Oswald; William W. Goodwin edition, several hands; revised William W. Goodwin · Plutarch’s Morals, vol. 4, translated by several hands, corrected and revised by William W. Goodwin (1911 reprint of the nineteenth-century revision of the 1684–1694 translation)

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The first passage comes from volume IV (John Oswald); the parallel Table Talk passage comes from volume III of the same edition

Published passage: Plutarch, De fortuna Romanorum 1, 316d; Table Talk 8.1.1

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Hermann Diels, Die Fragmente der Vorsokratiker, 2nd edition, volume I (Berlin: Weidmann, 1906), p. 222; historical running original-language text, excluding the critical apparatus. View original source ↗

English: John Oswald; William W. Goodwin edition, several hands; revised William W. Goodwin · Plutarch’s Morals, vol. 4, translated by several hands, corrected and revised by William W. Goodwin (1911 reprint of the nineteenth-century revision of the 1684–1694 translation). Published translation ↗

Additional translation sources: De fortuna Romanorum 1 · Table Talk 8.1.1

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English · John Oswald; William W. Goodwin edition, several hands; revised William W. Goodwin. Plutarch’s Morals, vol. 4, translated by several hands, corrected and revised by William W. Goodwin (1911 reprint of the nineteenth-century revision of the 1684–1694 translation).. Default reading. Published translation ↗ Paired original ↗
Additional translation sources: De fortuna Romanorum 1 · Table Talk 8.1.1
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Available translations: English

φησὶ δὲ Δοῦρις ἐν τῶι δευτέρωι τῶν Ὥρων ἐπιγεγράφθαι αὐτῶι τὸ ἐπίγραμμα τόδε· τῆς σοφίης πάσης ἐν ἐμοὶ τέλος· ἢν δ’ ἔτι πλεῖον, Πυθαγόρηι τὠμῶι λέγε ταῦθ’, ὅτι πρῶτος ἁπάντων ἔστιν ἀν’ Ἑλλάδα γῆν· οὐ ψεύδομαι ὧδ’ ἀγορεύων. Ἴων δ’ ὁ Χῖός φησι περὶ αὐτοῦ· ὣς ὁ μὲν ἠνορέηι τε κεκασμένος ἠδὲ καὶ αἰδοῖ καὶ φθίμενος ψυχῆι τερπνὸν ἔχει βίοτον , εἴπερ Πυθαγόρης ἐτύμως ὁ σοφὸς περὶ πάντων ἀνθρώπων γνώμας ἴδεε κἀξέμαθεν.

But Duris, in the second book of his Boundaries, says that this epigram was written upon him:—

The limit of all wisdom is in me; And would be, were it larger. But report To my Pythagoras that he’s the first Of all the men that tread the Grecian soil; I shall not speak a falsehood, saying this.

And Ion, the Chian, says of him:—

Adorned with valour while alive, and modesty, Now that he’s dead he still exists in peace; For, like the wise Pythagoras, he studied The manners and the minds of many nations.

Charles Duke Yonge · Diogenes Laertius, The Lives and Opinions of Eminent Philosophers, translated C. D. Yonge (1853; G. Bell and Sons stereotype reprint, 1915)

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Yonge construes the final conditional comparison as a statement; his complete historical rendering is preserved

Published passage: Diogenes Laertius 1.119–120

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The 1906 text reads ἴδεε κἀξέμαθεν; ancient introduction and both poems are preserved. Bracketed bibliographical comments and broken-word artifacts removed.

Hermann Diels, Die Fragmente der Vorsokratiker, 2nd edition, volume I (Berlin: Weidmann, 1906), p. 222; historical running original-language text, excluding the critical apparatus. View original source ↗

English: Charles Duke Yonge · Diogenes Laertius, The Lives and Opinions of Eminent Philosophers, translated C. D. Yonge (1853; G. Bell and Sons stereotype reprint, 1915). Published translation ↗

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English · Charles Duke Yonge. Diogenes Laertius, The Lives and Opinions of Eminent Philosophers, translated C. D. Yonge (1853; G. Bell and Sons stereotype reprint, 1915).. Default reading. Published translation ↗ Paired original ↗
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Available translations: German

ἑνδεκάχορδε λύρα, δεκαβάμονα τάξιν ἔχοισα
εἰς συμφωνούσας ἁρμονίας τριόδους,
πρὶν μέν σ’ ἑπτάτονον ψάλλον διὰ τέσσαρα πάντες
Ἕλληνες σπανίαν μοῦσαν ἀειράμενοι...

Elfsaitige Leier, die du eine für die zusammenklingenden Dreiwege der Harmonie eingerichtete zehnstufige Intervallenordnung besitzest, dich haben ehedem alle Hellenen mit sieben Saiten gespielt, wobei sie denn freilich nur eine ärmliche Quartenmusik erzielten.

German · Hermann Diels · Die Fragmente der Vorsokratiker, 2. Auflage, Band I (1906)

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Existing human translation retained verbatim; historical original-language passage covers the same translated quotation.

All four quoted lines are present with matching wording; the printed question about εἰς in the later dossier is not reproduced.

Supplementary context has not been verified throughout against an identified historical edition. The translated paired reading remains available.

Hermann Diels, Die Fragmente der Vorsokratiker, 2nd edition, volume I (Berlin: Weidmann, 1906), p. 223; historical running original-language text, excluding the critical apparatus. View original source ↗

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German wording transcribed and checked against the printed 1906 edition, p. 223; line-end hyphenation and page breaks are joined. The matching original identifies the portion translated. Consult the cited edition for surrounding source context

The four quoted verses follow the 1906 printing. The Cleonides carrier and its Terpander comparison are outside this translation

German · Hermann Diels · Die Fragmente der Vorsokratiker, 2. Auflage, Band I (1906) Published translation ↗

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German · Hermann Diels. Die Fragmente der Vorsokratiker, 2. Auflage, Band I (1906). Default reading. Published translation ↗ Paired original ↗
Translation: Public domain
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