person
Bias of Priene
Bias
also: Biante
One of the traditional Seven Sages of Greece. Scipio (in Laelius) refused to believe that the cynical maxim “love as though you may one day hate” really came from so wise a man.
Reading notes
- Laelius, On Friendship §59 one of the seven sages
Bias of Priene, reckoned among the Seven Sages of Greece. Scipio could not believe so wise a man really uttered the cynical maxim that one should love as though one might one day hate.