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Ancient Greek
Etymology
φέρω (phérō, “bring, bear, carry”) + κρᾰ́τος (krắtos, “might, strength, power”) + -ης (-ēs, suffix forming third-declension proper nouns)
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /pʰe.re.krá.tɛːs/ → /ɸe.reˈkra.tis/ → /fe.reˈkra.tis/
Proper noun
Φερεκρᾰ́της • (Pherekrắtēs) m (genitive Φερεκρᾰ́τους); third declension
- Pherecrates (celebrated Athenian poet of the Old Comedy)
428 BCE – 347 BCE,
Plato,
Protagoras 327d:
- πρὸς ἀνθρώπους οἷς μήτε παιδεία ἐστὶν μήτε δικαστήρια μήτε νόμοι μηδὲ ἀνάγκη μηδεμία διὰ παντὸς ἀναγκάζουσα ἀρετῆς ἐπιμελεῖσθαι, ἀλλ’ εἶεν ἄγριοί τινες οἷοίπερ οὓς πέρυσιν Φερεκράτης ὁ ποιητὴς ἐδίδαξεν ἐπὶ Ληναίῳ.
- pròs anthrṓpous hoîs mḗte paideía estìn mḗte dikastḗria mḗte nómoi mēdè anánkē mēdemía dià pantòs anankázousa aretês epimeleîsthai, all’ eîen ágrioí tines hoîoíper hoùs pérusin Pherekrátēs ho poiētḕs edídaxen epì Lēnaíōi.
Ps.-Plut., Mus. 30
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