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-“Astydamas the Elder: —Son of Morsimus son of Philocles, both writers of tragedy; of Athens; writer of tragedy; wrote 240 plays; was 15 times victorious; he was a disciple of Isocrates, and changed his subject for tragedy.” Suidas Lexicon:
+“Astydamas the Elder: —Son of Morsimus son of Philocles, both writers of tragedy; of Athens; writer of tragedy; wrote 240 plays; was 15 times victorious; he was a disciple of Isocrates, and changed his subject for tragedy.”
+Suidas Lexicon
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-“At this time （398 B.C.） Astydamas the tragedy-writer produced his first play. He lived to be sixty （?） years of age.” Diodorus of Sicily Historical Library:
+“At this time （398 B.C.） Astydamas the tragedy-writer produced his first play. He lived to be sixty （?） years of age.”
+Diodorus of Sicily Historical Library
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-“From the time when Astydamas won at Athens 109 years, in the archonship of Asteius at Athens （373 B.C.）.1” Parian Chronicle:
+“From the time when Astydamas won at Athens 109 years, in the archonship of Asteius at Athens （373 B.C.）.1”
+Parian Chronicle
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-“The Athenians honoured Astydamas above poets like Aeschylus by giving him a bronze statue.” Diogenes Laertius Lives of the Philosophers 2. 43
+“The Athenians honoured Astydamas above poets like Aeschylus by giving him a bronze statue.”
+Diogenes Laertius Lives of the Philosophers 2. 43
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 ===== Inscription =====
-“You praise yourself like old Astydamas:—Astydamas son of Morsimus, having won the prize with his tragedy Parthenopaeus , was accorded by the Athenians the right of dedicating his portrait in the Theatre, and composed on himself the following boastful inscription:
+You praise yourself like old Astydamas:—Astydamas son of Morsimus, having won the prize with his tragedy Parthenopaeus , was accorded by the Athenians the right of dedicating his portrait in the Theatre, and composed on himself the following boastful inscription:
-Would I had lived in their day or they in mine, who bear the palm for a happy tongue: then should I have been truly judged if I had come off first; but alas! the competitors beyond cavil were before my day.2
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+//Would I had lived in their day or they in mine, who bear the palm for a happy tongue: then should I have been truly judged if I had come off first; but alas! the competitors beyond cavil were before my day.2//
-” Photius Lexicon:
+Photius Lexicon:
 inscriptions mention the performance of his tragedies in 348,342, and 341 （ Parthernopaeus ） cf. Dittenb. 1078; we should therefore prob. read his age above as 90, but there has perh. been confusion between A. and his son of the same name