Saadia ben Abraham Longo () was a Turkish

Hebrew Hebrew (; ; ) is a Northwest Semitic language of the Afroasiatic language family. Historically, it is one of the spoken languages of the Israelites and their longest-surviving descendants, the Jews and Samaritans. It was largely preserved ...

poet, who lived in

Constantinople la, Constantinopolis ota, قسطنطينيه , alternate_name = Byzantion (earlier Greek name), Nova Roma ("New Rome"), Miklagard/Miklagarth (Old Norse), Tsargrad ( Slavic), Qustantiniya ( Arabic), Basileuousa ("Queen of Cities"), Megalopolis ( ...

in about the middle of the sixteenth century. A manuscript in the Bodleian Library contains a collection of Longo's poems about various subjects; letters written by him to contemporary scholars and by them to him; a poetical correspondence between Longo and David Onkeneira; and a paper entitled ''Naḥal Ḳedumim'', in prose interspersed with verse in which occur 1,000 words beginning with aleph, an arrangement similar to that which was followed in the ''Elef Alfin'' of . Some of Longo's dirges were published under the title ''Shivre Luḥot'' (Salonica, 1594). To them is prefixed a chronicle of Jewish writers and their works, entitled ''Seder Zemannim''. Longo wrote, besides, poems on many works of his contemporaries; these poems are printed at the beginning of the works to which they refer.

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