Evenus
historical figure · 4 works · 4 mentions · 4 anchored passages
Evenus from Paros
spoken of as
1 expressionin the texts
Nicomachean Ethics
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:
On Virtues and Vices
Poet quoted on the nature of insolence
Insolence is that by which men procure pleasures for themselves while bringing others into reproach;
which, gaining nothing, all the same does wrong.
Apology
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.
Phaedo
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.
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.
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.
And Simmias said, What a message that is, Socrates, for Evenus!