Editing Zenobius

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'''Zenobius''' ({{langx|grc|Ζηνόβιος}}) was a [[Greece|Greek]] [[sophist]], who taught rhetoric at [[Rome]] during the reign of Emperor [[Hadrian]] (AD 117–138).{{sfn|Smith|1873|loc=''Zeno'bius''}}

==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 Chalcenterus|Didymus of Alexandria]] and "The Tarrhaean" ([[Lucillus]] of [[Tarrha]], a polis in [[Crete]]).{{sfn|Chisholm|1911|p=972}} In the work, the proverbs are [[alphabetisation|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.{{sfn|Chisholm|1911|p=972}}

==Notes==
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==References==
*{{cite DGRBM |year=1873 |title=Zeno'bius |url=https://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus%3Atext%3A1999.04.0104%3Aalphabetic+letter%3DZ%3Aentry+group%3D1%3Aentry%3Dzenobius-bio-1}}
*{{EB1911|wstitle=Zenobius |volume=28 |page=972}} Endnotes:
**[[Thomas Gaisford |T. Gaisford]] (1836) and [[Ernst Ludwig von Leutsch|E. L. Leutsch]]–[[Friedrich Wilhelm Schneidewin|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 Publishers|Brill]], 2009. {{ISBN|978-90-04-14220-6}}. [https://referenceworks.brillonline.com/browse/brill-s-new-pauly Online version at Brill].

==External links==
* ''Corpus paroemiographorum graecorum'', E. L. Leutsch, F. G. Schneidewin (ed.), vol. 1, Gottingae, apud Vandenohoeck et Ruprecht, 1839, [https://archive.org/details/corpusparoemiogr01leutuoft pp. 1–176].
* [http://www.roger-pearse.com/weblog/?cat=134 Discussion about Zenobius at Roger-Pearse.com]

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[[Category:Roman-era Sophists]]
[[Category:Roman-era philosophers in Rome]]
[[Category:Ancient Greek educators]]
[[Category:2nd-century Greek philosophers]]
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