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TWO NOTES ON CERCIDAS OF MEGALOPOLIS
Few figures in the Hellenistic world were more impressively versatile
than Cercidas of Megalopolis, who combined the roles of statesman,
military commander, legislator, poet, and Cynic philosopher. It is a
pleasure and a privilege to offer some observations on Cercidas to
Manuel Fernndez-Galiano, whose own energy and versatility have done
so much for the study of Greek both in Spain and abroad, and who may
fittingly be described in the words Cercidas used of himself:
ziv Sdcpsvye x a h h oi>Sv zo xa.
zvza zsoZoi S' Uzo onhyxvoi