Palamedes
Ὡς τῶν ἐχόντων πάντες ἄνθρωποι φίλοι → Opulento amicos, quos volunt, omnes habent → Wie sehr sind doch den Reichen alle Menschen Freund
English > Greek (Woodhouse)
Παλαμήδης, -ους, ὁ or say, son of Nauplius.
Latin > English (Lewis & Short)
Pălămēdes: is, m., = Παλαμήδης>,
I son of Nauplius, king of Eubœa, who lost his life before Troy, through the artifices of Ulysses, Cic. Tusc. 1, 41, 98; id. Off. 3, 26, 98; Auct. Her. 2, 19, 28. He is said, by observing the flight of cranes, to have invented the letters Θ, Ξ, Φ, Χ>, acc. to others the letters Υ> and Δ>, Plin. 7, 56, 57, § 192; Mart. 13, 75, 2.—Hence,
A Pălămēdēus, a, um, adj., Palamedean, Manil. 4, 206.—
B Pă-lămēdĭăcus, a, um, adj., Palamedic: Palamediaci calculi, the counters in the game of draughts which Palamedes invented, Cassiod. Var. 8, 31.—
C Pălămēdĭ-cus, a, um, adj., Palamedic, Aus. Techn. de Monosyll. 25.
