Adaeus, or Addaeus (Greek: Ἀδαῖος or Ἀδδαῖος), a
Greek
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epigram
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matic poet, a native most probably of
Macedon
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ia. The epithet Μακεδών is appended to his name before the third epigram in the Vat. MS. (Anth. Gr. vi. 228); and the subjects of the second, eighth, ninth, and tenth epigrams agree with this account of his origin. He lived in the time of
Alexander the Great
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, to whose death he alludes. (Anth. Gr. vii. 240.) His extant poems are chiefly about country life and hunting.
The fifth epigram (Anth. Gr. vii. 305) is inscribed Αδδαίου Μυτιληναίου, and there was a
Mytilenaean of this name, who wrote two prose works Περί αγαλματοποιών (On statue-makers) and Περί Διαθέσεως (On disposition) (Athen. xiii. p. 606. A, xi. p. 471, F.) The time when he lived cannot be fixed with certainty.
Reiske, though on insufficient grounds, believes these two to be the same person. (Anth. Grace, vi. 228, 2589 vii. 51, 238, 240, 305, x. 20 ; Brunck, Anal. ii. p. 224 ; Jacobs, xiii. p. 831.)
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There was also another Adaeus, a rhetorician, to whom
Seneca the elder
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frequently refers.
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Greek Anthology
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References
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Ancient Greek poets
Ancient Macedonian poets
4th-century BC Macedonians
4th-century BC poets
Epigrammatists of the Greek Anthology
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