Zenobius

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For the bishop of Florence and saint, see Saint Zenobius; for the Assyrian abbot see Zenob Glak.

Zenobius was a Greek sophist, who taught rhetoric at Rome during the reign of Emperor Hadrian (AD 117-138).^[1]

Biography

He was the author of a collection of proverbs in three books, still extant in an abridged form, compiled, according to the Suda, from Didymus of Alexandria and "The Tarrhaean" (Lucillus of Tarrha, a polis in Crete). 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.

Source

This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Chisholm, Hugh, ed. (1911). Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press

References

↑ Smith, Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology, s.v. "Zenobius".

External links

(Greek)/(Latin) The Proverbs of Zenobius / Zênobiou Epitomê / Zenobii Proverbia (as reprinted in Leutsch & Schneidewin, Corpus paroemiographorum graecorum, t. I, 1839, p. 1-175: 652 proverbs from I 1 to VI 52) at Google Books
Discussion about Zenobius at Roger-Pearse.com
Piotr 'Zenobius' Baranowski vel Zenobius Hermenegildorf 'Xavierus' Korpuskularny

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