Phocylides

1. Orations Dio Chrysostom 1 neutral 1 citation

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   Phocylides is named as author of popular counsel-poetry, cited to illustrate poetry unfit for kings.

   Perhaps some of them might be called popular pieces, since they offer counsel and exhortation to the common crowd and to private men—such, I suppose, as the verses of Phocylides and Theognis.

2. De liberis educandis Plutarch 1 endorsed 1 citation

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   Phocylides is explicitly named as the poet whose verse is quoted and endorsed as good counsel on instilling principles in early childhood.

   Whence, also, it seems to me good advice which divine Plato gives to nurses, not to tell all sorts of common tales to children in infancy, lest thereby their minds should chance to be filled with foolish and corrupt notions.

3. De recta ratione audiendi Plutarch 1 neutral 1 citation · 2 passages

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   Phocylides receives a mixed treatment across the essay: criticized once for poverty of style, then cited approvingly for an encouraging maxim, yielding an overall neutral stance.

   For he that will be a good man must not only, as Phocylides says, — Expect much fraud, and many a time be caught, — but be laughed at and disgraced, and endure many scurrilous and virulent reflections;

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