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title: Testimony
title_greek: Μαρτυρία
author: Paron of Miletus
eul_wid: avy-aa
eul_aid: avy
canonical: "https://eulogikon.org/works/paron-miletus-testimony-avy-aa"
period: Archaic
dialect: Ionic
domain: Philosophy
format: Collection
license: "https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/"
---

# Testimony

*Μαρτυρία*

**Author:** Paron of Miletus

**eul_wid:** `avy-aa` · [HTML page](https://eulogikon.org/works/paron-miletus-testimony-avy-aa)

## Text

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ARIST. Phys. Δ 13. 222b 17 οἱ μὲν σοφώτατον ἔλεγον [sc. τὸν χρόνον], ὁ δὲ Πυθαγόρειος Πάρων ἀμαθέστατον, ὅτι καὶ ἐπιλανθάνονται ἐν τούτωι, λέγων ὀρθότερον. SIMPL. z. d. St. 754, 9 οὗτος δὲ ἔοικεν εἶναι, οὗ καὶ Εὔδημος [fr. 52 Sp.] ἀνωνύμως ἐμνήσθη λέγων ἐν Ὀλυμπίαι Σιμωνίδου τὸν χρόνον ἐπαινοῦντος ὡς σοφώτατον, εἴπερ ἐν αὐτῶι αἱ μαθήσεις γίνονται καὶ αἱ ἀναμνήσεις, παρόντα τινὰ τῶν σοφῶν εἰπεῖν ‘τί δέ, ὦ Σιμωνίδη, οὐκ ἐπιλανθανόμεθα μέντοι ἐν τῶι χρόνωι;‘

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