DIDYMUS CHALCENTERUS (c. 63 R.C.A.D. 10)

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DIDYMUS CHALCENTERUS (c. 63 R.C.A.D. 10) , Greek scholar and grammarian, flourished in the time of Cicero and

Augustus

AUGUSTUS (a name 1 derived from Lat. augeo, increase, i.e. venerable, majestic, Gr. Ee0avr6s)

. His surname (Gr. XaXaiveepos, brazen-bowelled) came from his indefatigable industry; he was said to have written so many books (more than 3500) that he was unable to recollect their names (3i(3MoX6.0as). He lived and taught in Alexandria and Rome, where he became the friend of Varro. He is chiefly important as having introduced Alexandrian learning to the Romans. He was' a follower of the school of Aristarchus, upon whose recension of Homer he wrote a treatise, fragments of which have been preserved in the Venetian Scholia. He also wrote commentaries on many other Greek poets and

prose

PROSE

authors. In his

work

WORK

on the lyric poets he treated of the various classes of poetry and their

chief

CHIEF (from Fr. chef, head, Lat. caput)

representatives,. and his lists of words and phrases (used in tragedy and comedy and by orators and historians), of words of doubtful meaning, and of corrupt expressions, furnished the later grammarians with valuable material. His activity extended to all kinds of subjects: grammar (orthography, inflexions),

proverbs

PROVERBS, BOOK OF (Heb. Mishle Slzelomoh, " Proverbs of Solomon," abridged by the later Jews to Mishle; Septuagint, irapotpiai or II. EaX.; Lat. Vulg. Parabolae sal. and Liber proverbiorum)

, wonderful stories, the law-tablets (moves) of Solon, stones, and different kinds of

wood

. His polemic against Cicero's De republics (Ammianus

Marcellinus

MARCELLINUS, ST

xxii. 16) provoked a reply from Suetonius. In spite of his stupendous industry, Didymus was little more than a compiler, of little

critical

CRITICAL (in alphabetical order of authors)

judgment and doubtful accuracy, but he deserves recognition for having incorporated in his numerous writings the works of earlier critics and commentators.
See M. W. Schmidt, De Didymo Chalcentero (1853) and Didymi Chalcenteri fragmenta (1854); also F. Susemihl, Geschichte der griech. Literatur in der Alexandrinerzeit, ii. (1891) ; J. E. Sandys, History of Classical Scholarship, i. (1906).

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