Phrynichus Arabius
Phrynichus Arabius (
Life
Φρύνιχος, Βιθυνός, σοφιστής. Ἀττικιστὴν ὑπ' Ἀττικῶν ὀνομάτων βιβλία β#, Τιθεμένων συναγωγήν, Σοφιστικῆς παρασκευῆς βιβλία μζ#, οἱ δὲ οδ#.
Phrynichus of Bithynia, sophist. He wrote
- Atticist, or On Attic Words (Ἀττικῶν ὀνομάτων) in two books;
- Collection of Usages (Τιθεμένων συναγωγήν)
- Sophistic Preparations (Σοφιστικῆς παρασκευῆς (47 books, but some say 74)
(Of the Sophistic Preparations only some fragments and
Ancient Greek: διημαρτημένα).[7]
Editions of the Eklogê, with valuable notes, have been published by
C. A. Lobeck
(1820) and W. G. Rutherford (1881); Lobeck devotes his attention chiefly to the later, Rutherford to the earlier usages noticed by Phrynichus. See also J. Brenous, De Phrynicho Atticista (1895).
Notes
- ISBN 978-1-4668-9159-3.
- ISBN 978-90-04-18409-1.
- Photius attributes to Phrynichus the ethnic Ἀράβιος (Bibl. cod. 158, 2, 100a, 33), while the Sudadescribes him as Βιθυνός (φ 764).
- ^ Struck, Peter T. (2020). "Greek & Roman Mythology - Phrynichus". University of Pennsylvania.
A Greek Sophist, who lived in the second half of the 3rd century A.D. in Bithynia [...]
- Adler number: φ764.
- ^ a b c Chisholm 1911.
- ^ a b Forbes, Peter Barr Reid; Browning, Robert; Wilson, Nigel Guy (1996). "Phrynichus (3) Arabius". In Hornblower, Simon; Spawforth, Antony (eds.). Oxford Classical Dictionary (3rd ed.). pp. 1177–8.
- ^ I. Bekker, editor. Anecdota graeca (1814)
References
- I. Avotins "The sophist Aristocles and the grammarian Phrynichus", Parola del Passato 33 (1978), 181–91
- J. de Borries Phrynichi Sophistae Praeparatio Sophistica (Leipzig 1911)
- E. Fischer Die Ekloge des Phrynichos (SGLG 1, Berlin 1974)
- This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Chisholm, Hugh, ed. (1911). "Phrynichus". Encyclopædia Britannica. Vol. 21 (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press.
External links
- Phrynichi eclogae nominum et verborum atticorum, Chr. Augus. Lobeck (ed.), Lipsiae, in libraria weidmannia, 1820.
- The new Phrynichus, being a revised text of The Ecloga of the grammarian Phrynichus, W. Gunion Rutherford (ed.), London, Macmillan and Co., 1881.
