Pythias
- name of a female slave, Ter. Eun. 500 al.; also in a comedy of Caecilius, Hor. A. P. 238 Schol. Cruq and Orell.; Turp. ap. Non. p. 281, 26.
(Πυθιάς).
1. The sister or adopted daughter of Hermias, became the wife of Aristotle. [Aristoteles, p. 318.]
2. Daughter of Aristotle and Pythias. She was married three times : her first husband being Nicanor of Stagira, a relative of Aristotle; her second Procles, a descendant of Demaratus, king of Sparta ; and her third Metrodorus, the physician (Sext. Emp. ad v. Math. 1.12, p. 657, ed. Bekker).
3. A slave of Octavia Augusta, the wife of Nero. She became noted for the constancy with which she endured the tortures to which she was put by Tigellinus, without informing against her mistress (D. C. 62.13). [C.P.M]
is mentioned by Pliny (Plin. Nat. 34.8. s. 19), according to the common reading, as one of the statuaries who flourished about the time of the revival of the art. The MSS. vary much as to the form of the name; and, taking also into account the very loose way in which some of these names are inserted by Pliny (comp. Polycles), it is by no means impossible that he may be one and the same person with the silverchaser Pytheas. (See Sillig, edition of Pliny, ad loc.) [P.S]
(Πυθιάς). (1) The wife of Aristotle.
(2) The daughter of Aristotle.