- Source: Philalethes
Philalethes (Greek: φιλαλήθης, philaléthēs, pronounced [filalétɛːs]) was an Ancient Greek name, also often adopted in pseudonyms (based on its literal translation, "lover of truth"). It may apply to:
Philalethes, book by Severus of Antioch
Alazonomastix Philalethes, pseudonym of Henry More
Alexander Philalethes
Demosthenes Philalethes
Eirenaeus Philalethes, alchemical writer, now usually identified with George Starkey
Eugenius Philalethes, alchemical writer, now usually identified with Thomas Vaughan (philosopher)
Irenaeus Philalethes, pseudonym of Lewis Du Moulin
Philalethes Cantabrigiensis, pseudonym of James Jurin
Philalethes, pen-name of William Hazlitt
Philalethes, pseudonym of John of Saxony as translator of Dante's Divine Comedy
Philalethes, pen-name of Henry Portsmouth, author of an index to William Penn's works (1730)
Philalethes is a character in Humphry Davy's Consolations in Travel (1830)
See also
Philalethes Society, Masonic organization