Ἀθήναιος

• Ἀθήναις (Athḗnais) — in epigraphy of the brazen age

Ἀθήναιος • (Athḗnaios) m (genitive Ἀθηναίου); second declension

1. a male given name
   • 431 BCE – 404 BCE, Thucydides, History of the Peloponnesian War 4.119.2:

     ξυνετίθεντο δὲ καὶ ἐσπένδοντο Λακεδαιμονίων μὲν οἵδε· Ταῦρος Ἐχετιμίδα, Ἀθήναιος Περικλείδα, Φιλοχαρίδας Ἐρυξιλαΐδα· Κορινθίων δὲ Αἰνέας Ὠκύτου, Εὐφαμίδας Ἀριστωνύμου· Σικυωνίων δὲ Δαμότιμος Ναυκράτους, Ὀνάσιμος Μεγακλέους· Μεγαρέων δὲ Νίκασος Κεκάλου, Μενεκράτης Ἀμφιδώρου· Ἐπιδαυρίων δὲ Ἀμφίας Εὐπαιΐδα· Ἀθηναίων δὲ οἱ στρατηγοὶ Νικόστρατος Διειτρέφους, Νικίας Νικηράτου, Αὐτοκλῆς Τολμαίου.

     xunetíthento dè kaì espéndonto Lakedaimoníōn mèn hoíde; Taûros Ekhetimída, Athḗnaios Perikleída, Philokharídas Eruxilaḯda; Korinthíōn dè Ainéas Ōkútou, Euphamídas Aristōnúmou; Sikuōníōn dè Damótimos Naukrátous, Onásimos Megakléous; Megaréōn dè Níkasos Kekálou, Menekrátēs Amphidṓrou; Epidauríōn dè Amphías Eupaiḯda; Athēnaíōn dè hoi stratēgoì Nikóstratos Dieitréphous, Nikías Nikērátou, Autoklês Tolmaíou.

     • 1881 translation by Benjamin Jowett^[1]

       Those who formally ratified the truce were, on behalf of Lacedaemon, Taurus the son of Echetimidas, Athenaeus the son of Pericleidas, Philocharidas the son of Eryxidaidas; of Corinth, Aeneas the son of Ocytus, Euphamidas the son of Aristonymus; of Sicyon, Damotimus the son of Naucrates, Onasimus the son of Megacles; of Megara, Nicasus the son of Cecalus, Menecrates the son of Amphidorus; of Epidaurus, Amphias the son of Eupaïdas; and on behalf of Athens, Nicostratus the son of Diitrephes, Nicias the son of Niceratus, Autocles the son of Tolmaeus.

   • 431 BCE – 404 BCE, Thucydides, History of the Peloponnesian War 4.122.1:

     καὶ ὁ μὲν ἔμελλεν ἐγχειρήσειν ταῖς πόλεσι ταύταις, ἐν τούτῳ δὲ τριήρει οἱ τὴν ἐκεχειρίαν περιαγγέλλοντες ἀφικνοῦνται παρ’ αὐτόν, Ἀθηναίων μὲν Ἀριστώνυμος, Λακεδαιμονίων δὲ Ἀθήναιος.

     kaì ho mèn émellen enkheirḗsein taîs pólesi taútais, en toútōi dè triḗrei hoi tḕn ekekheirían periangéllontes aphiknoûntai par’ autón, Athēnaíōn mèn Aristṓnumos, Lakedaimoníōn dè Athḗnaios.

     • 1881 translation by Benjamin Jowett^[2]

       But before he had executed his intentions, a trireme arrived conveying the ambassadors who went round to proclaim the truce, Aristonymus from Athens, and Athenaeus from Lacedaemon.

   1. Ἀθήναιος Ἀθηναίου (fl. 138–128 B.C.E.), Athenian composer and musician
   2. Ἀθήναιος Μηχανικός (fl. mid-to-late 1st century B.C.E.), author of a book on siegecraft, Περὶ μηχανημάτων (Perì mēkhanēmátōn, “On Machines”)
   3. Ἀθήναιος Ἀτταλεύς (fl. C.E. 1st century), physician and founder of the Pneumatic school of medicine
   4. Ἀθήναιος Nαυκρατίτης (fl. C.E. late 2nd–early 3rd centuries), rhetorician and grammarian

• → French: Athênæos
• → Latin: Athēnaeus

• Ἀθήναιος in Bailly, Anatole (1935), Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette