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Hippocleides
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Hippocleides or Hippoclides (Ancient Greek: Ἱπποκλείδης) was an Athenian nobleman, who served as Eponymous Archon for the year 566 BC – 565 BC. He was the son of Teisander (Τείσανδρος).
Quotes
Οὐ φροντὶς Ἱπποκλείδῃ. / Ou phrontìs Hippokleídēi.
Hippocleides doesn't care. (lit. Not a care to Hippocleides.)
From a story in Herodotus (VI, 129), in which Hippocleides loses the chance to marry Cleisthenes' daughter after getting drunk and dancing on his head. Herodotus says the phrase was a common expression in his own day.
"Hippocleides cares not!" (G. C. Macaulay, 1890) · "What does Hippoclides care?" (George Rawlinson, 1910) · "Hippoclides cares nought for that!" (A. D. Godley, 1920)
External links
List of Classical Greek phrases#Οο
Category:People from Athens
Category:Politicians from Greece