Zenobius ( grc-gre, Ζηνόβιος) was a
Greek sophist, who taught rhetoric at
Rome during the reign of Emperor
Hadrian
Hadrian (; la, Caesar Trâiānus Hadriānus ; 24 January 76 – 10 July 138) was Roman emperor from 117 to 138. He was born in Italica (close to modern Santiponce in Spain), a Roman ''municipium'' founded by Italic settlers in Hispania B ...
(AD 117–138).
Biography
He was the author of a collection of proverbs in three books, still extant in an abridged form, compiled, according to the ''
Suda
The ''Suda'' or ''Souda'' (; grc-x-medieval, Σοῦδα, Soûda; la, Suidae Lexicon) is a large 10th-century Byzantine encyclopedia of the ancient Mediterranean world, formerly attributed to an author called Soudas (Σούδας) or Souidas ...
'' ,
[Suda ζ 73] 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
The Giunti were a Florentine family of printers. The first Giunti press was established in Venice by Lucantonio Giunti, who began printing under his own name in 1489. The press of his brother Filippo Giunti (1450–1517) in Florence, active fr ...
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.
Notes
References
*
* Endnotes:
**
T. Gaisford (1836) and
E. L. Leutsch–
F. W. Schneiderwin (1839)
**B. E. Miller, ''Mélanges de littérature grecque '' (1868)
**W. Christ, ''Griechische Litteraturgeschichte'' (1898)
External links
* ''Corpus paroemiographorum graecorum'', E. L. Leutsch, F. G. Schneidewin (ed.), vol. 1, Gottingae, apud Vandenohoeck et Ruprecht, 1839
pp. 1–176
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Roman-era Sophists
Roman-era philosophers in Rome
Ancient Greek educators
2nd-century philosophers
Year of birth unknown
Year of death unknown
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