Evenus · Atlas · Falsafa

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Evenus of Paros2 mentions

Apology (Greek) · Phaedrus (Greek)

Evenus, he said, Socrates, from Paros, five minae.

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in the texts

Nicomachean EthicsClassical · Greek

A poet quoted on the idea that long-continued training becomes a person's nature.

for even habit is hard to change, precisely because it is a sort of nature, as Evenus says:

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On Virtues and VicesClassical · Greek

Poet quoted on the nature of insolence

which, gaining nothing, all the same does wrong.

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Insolence is that by which men procure pleasures for themselves while bringing others into reproach;

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ApologyClassical · Greek

A sophist from Paros who charged five minae to teach virtue, cited by Callias as an educator.

Evenus, he said, Socrates, from Paros, five minae.

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PhaedoClassical · Greek

A poet and reputed philosopher who asked why Socrates began composing verses in prison; Socrates sends him advice to follow after him in death if he is truly a philosopher.

And Simmias said, What a message that is, Socrates, for Evenus!

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So tell Evenus that, Cebes, and bid him farewell, and tell him, if he is wise, to come after me as quickly as he can.

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Several others have asked about the poems you have composed, the metrical versions of Aesop’s fables and the hymn to Apollo, and Evenus asked me the day before yesterday why you never wrote any poetry before, composed these verses after you came to prison.

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PhaedrusClassical · Greek

A poet-rhetorician credited with inventing techniques of indirect praise and blame composed in verse as memory aids.

Shall we not bring the illustrious Parian, Evenus, into our discussion, who invented covert allusion and indirect praises?

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