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Diogenes Laertius

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Diogenes Laertius (lived 3rd century AD)

Greek writer. He was the author of an important compilation of anecdotes and quotations from the ancient Greek philosophers. It is the sole source of information we have about many of the philosophers it covers.



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The rare use of the term from Demosthenes to Diogenes Laertius prompts this conclusion: "parakletos was a word of general meaning which could appear in legal contexts, and when it did the parakletos was a supporter or sponsor" (Grayston: 75).
Worship in the fourth gospel: a cultural interpretation of John ... by Neyrey, Jerome H. / Biblical Theology Bulletin
The Epistle to Menoeceus," cited in Diogenes Laertius, Book X (Cambridge: Harvard, 1965), 131, 125.
The God who made the world by Tiede, David L. / Currents in Theology and Mission
The preponderance of Latin authors is noticeable; of the Greeks, in addition to Diogenes Laertius, who occurs three times, only Polybius, Philostratus, Athenaeus, Homer, Aristotle, Palladas, Plutarch, Dioscorides, and Aristophanes are the subject of consideration, and then only once each.
Alciato and the grammarians: the law and the humanities in the ... by Drysdall, Denis L. / Renaissance Quarterly
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