Silenos (Glossograph)

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Silenus ( Greek  Σιληνός , around 200 BC) was a Greek glossographer .

From his work Γλῶσσαι (Glossai), Athenaios and a Scholion to Apollonios of Rhodes have handed down nine fragments of dialectal expressions of drinking vessels. In it he quotes from the work of Nicandros . Presumably his glossary was used by Kleitarchus .

literature

  • Franz Susemihl : The History of Greek Literature in the Alexandrian Period , Volume 2. 1892. S. 186 f.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Athenaios 15, 699e.
  2. ↑ Scholion to Apollonios of Rhodes 1, 1299.
  3. ↑ Athenaios 11, 782f.
personal data
SURNAME Silenus
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Σιληνός
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Greek glossographer
DATE OF BIRTH around 200 BC Chr.
DATE OF DEATH 2nd century BC Chr.