Epitaph, as quoted in The Lives and Opinions of Eminent Philosophers by Diogenes Laërtius as translated by C. D. Yonge
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Beneath this stone lies Bias, who was born In the illustrious Prienian land, The glory of the whole Ionian race.
— Epitaph
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About Bias of Priene
Bias (Greek: Βίας ο Πριηνεὺς, 6th century BC), the son of Teutamus and a citizen of Priene was a Greek philosopher. Satyrus called him the wisest of all the Seven Sages of Greece.
About Bias of Priene
Bias (Greek: Βίας ο Πριηνεὺς, 6th century BC), the son of Teutamus and a citizen of Priene was a Greek philosopher. Satyrus called him the wisest of all the Seven Sages of Greece.
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