Zenobius

Zenobius (Template:Langx) was a Greek sophist, who taught rhetoric at Rome during the reign of Emperor Hadrian (AD 117–138).Template:Sfn

Biography

He was the author of a collection of proverbs in three books, still extant in an abridged form, compiled, according to the Suda,<ref>Suda ζ 73</ref> from Didymus of Alexandria and "The Tarrhaean" (Lucillus of Tarrha, a polis in Crete).Template:Sfn In the work, the proverbs are alphabetised and grouped by hundreds. This collection was first printed by Filippo Giunti in Florence, 1497.

Zenobius is also said to have been the author of a Greek translation of the Latin prose author Sallust, which has been lost, and of a birthday poem on the emperor Hadrian.Template:Sfn

References

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• Template:EB1911 Endnotes:
  • T. Gaisford (1836) and E. L. Leutsch–F. W. Schneiderwin (1839)
  • B. E. Miller, Mélanges de littérature grecque (1868)
  • W. Christ, Griechische Litteraturgeschichte (1898)

Further reading

• Furley, William D., "Zenobius (2). Grammaticus Greek scholar in Rome, at the time of Hadrian", in Brill's New Pauly: Encyclopaedia of the Ancient World. Antiquity, Volume 15, Tuc-Zyt, edited by Hubert Cancik and Helmuth Schneider, Brill, 2009. Template:ISBN. Online version at Brill.

External links

• Corpus paroemiographorum graecorum, E. L. Leutsch, F. G. Schneidewin (ed.), vol. 1, Gottingae, apud Vandenohoeck et Ruprecht, 1839, pp. 1–176.
• Discussion about Zenobius at Roger-Pearse.com

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