But then, now, and for all time, Aristeas lives. And later someone will remember me, I say. For Sappho said it very beautifully, and Hesiod even more beautifully: fame never completely perishes, as many people say, for she is a goddess after all.
Author: pseudo-Dio Chrysostom
Title of Work: Corinthian Discourse
Location in Work: 46-47
Date of Work: c. 150 CE
Original Language: Greek (Attic)
Original Text:
ἀλλὰ καὶ τότε καὶ νῦν καὶ πρὸς ἅπαντα τὸν χρόνον ἔζη Ἀριστέης. μνάσεσθαί τινά φαμι καὶ ὕστερον ἀμμέων. πάνυ γὰρ καλῶς εἶπεν ἡ Σαπφώ· καὶ πολὺ κάλλιον Ἡσίοδος· φήμη δ᾿ οὔτις πάμπαν ἀπόλλυται, ἥντινα λαοὶ πολλοὶ φημίξωσι·
Reference Edition: Crosby, Corinthian Discourse.
Source of Date of Work: Thomas A. Warner (a very rough guess)
Commentary:
The Corinthian Discourse was anciently attributed to Dio Chrysostom but Dio’s authorship is considered ruled out for style reasons and because the author identifies himself as Roman (Crosby, Corinthian Discourse, 1). The author is commonly presumed to have been Favorinus.
This text directly follows a shortened retelling of Herodotos’ story attributed to oral tradition in which Aristeas appears to die and then disappears, with an added conjecture that Aristeas’ enemies took his body away.
Concordance: EGEP Aristeas T9; PEG Aristeas T19