Orion of Thebes (
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: Ώρίων ό Θηβαίος, died c. 460s) was a 5th-century
grammarian of
Thebes (Egypt)
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, the teacher of
Proclus
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the neo-Platonist, and of Eudocia, the wife of Emperor
Theodosius II
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. He taught at
Alexandria
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,
Caesarea
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in Cappadocia and
Constantinople
la, Constantinopolis ota, قسطنطينيه
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. He was the author of a partly extant etymological Lexicon (ed. F. W. Sturz, 1820), largely used by the compilers of the ''
Etymologicum Magnum
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'', the ''
Etymologicum Gudianum'' and other similar works; a collection of maxims in three books, addressed to Eudocia, also ascribed to him by
Suidas
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, still exists in a
Warsaw
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manuscript.
Edition
''Antholognomici'' Friedrich Wilhelm Schneidewin (ed.), ''Coniectanea critica: insunt Orionis Thebani Antholognomici Tituli VIII,'' Göttingen (1839)
Sources
Byzantine grammarians
460s deaths
Year of birth unknown
5th-century Egyptian people
5th-century Byzantine writers
People from Thebes, Egypt
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