Phocylides

On the southern limb, look for familiar craters Wargentin, Nasmyth, and Phocylides.

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+ What can be more express than the expression of Phocylides?

Hydriotaphia, or Urn-burial 2007

Then you never heard of the saying of Phocylides, that as soon as a man has a livelihood he should practise virtue?

The Republic by Plato ; translated by Benjamin Jowett 2006

And if obligatory on him, then let us raise a further question, whether this dieting of disorders, which is an impediment to the application of the mind in carpentering and the mechanical arts, does not equally stand in the way of the sentiment of Phocylides?

The Republic by Plato ; translated by Benjamin Jowett 2006

But how can excessive care of health be inconsistent with an ordinary occupation, and yet consistent with that practice of virtue which Phocylides inculcates?

The Republic by Plato ; translated by Benjamin Jowett 2006

Wisely then did Phocylides pray — ‘Many things are best in the mean; I desire to be of a middle condition in my city.’

Politics Aristotle 2002

So Thales, Empedocles, and Parmenides sang their natural philosophy in verses: so did Pythagoras and Phocylides their moral counsels: so did Tyrtaus in war matters, and Solon in matters of policy: or rather, they being poets, did exercise their delightful vein in those points of highest knowledge, which before them lay hid to the world.

English literary criticism Various

Phocylides wisely wishes for the middle state, as being most productive of happiness.

Politics: A Treatise on Government 384 BC-322 BC Aristotle

According to the poet Phocylides, the inhabitants of Leros had, without exception, an evil reputation (Strabo, X, v, 12).

The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 9: Laprade-Mass Liturgy 1840-1916 1913

The second kind is of them that deal with matters philosophical, either moral, as Tyrtæus, Phocylides, and Cato; or natural, as Lucretius and Virgil’s Georgics; or astronomical, as Manilius and Pontanus; or historical, as Lucan; which who mislike, the fault is in their judgment quite out of taste, and not in the sweet food of sweetly uttered knowledge.

The Defense of Poesy 1909