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HARPOCRATION, VALERIUS

This article appears in Volume V13, Page 15 of the Encyclopedia Britannica.

Encyclopedia Britannica - Main :: HAN-HEG
HARPOCRATION, VALERIUS , Greek grammarian of Alexandria. He is possibly the Harpocration mentioned by Julius Capitolinus (Life of Verus, 2) as the Greek tutor of Antoninus Verus (2nd century A.D.); some authorities place him much later, on the ground that he borrowed from Athenaeus. He is the author of a AeEdam (or lIepI Tiav )iEewv) i&w Sfsa p1]TOpcov, which has come down to us in an incomplete form. The
work
  contains, in more or less alphabetical order, notes on well-known events and persons mentioned by the orators, and explanations of legal and commercial expressions. As nearly all the lexicons to the Greek orators have been lost, Harpocration's
work
  is especially valuable. Amongst his authorities were the writers of Atthides (histories of Attica), the grammarian Didymus,
Dionysius
  of
Halicarnassus
 , and the lexicographer
Dionysius
 , son of Tryphon. The book also contains contributions to the history of Attic oratory and Greek literature generally. Nothing is known of an 'AvOnPwv vuvaye.yi7, a sort of
anthology
  or chrestomathy attributed to him by Suidas. A
series
  of articles in the margin
of a
Cambridge
  MS. of the
lexicon
  forms the basis of the
Lexicon
  rhetoricum Cantabrigiense (see DOBREE, P. P.).
The best edition is by W. Dindorf (1853); see also J. E. Sandys, History of Classical Scholarship, i. (1906), p. 325; C. Boysen, De Harpocrationis fontibus (
Kiel
 , 1876).


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