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Encyclopedia Britannica



HESYCHIUS

This article appears in Volume V13, Page 415 of the Encyclopedia Britannica.

Encyclopedia Britannica - Main :: HEG-HIG
HESYCHIUS ,. grammarian of Alexandria, probably flourished in the 5th century A.D. He was probably a
pagan
 ; and the explanations of words from Gregory of Nazianzus and other Christian writers (glossae science) are interpolations of a later time. He has left a Greek dictionary, containing a copious
list
  of peculiar words, forms and phrases, with an explanation of their meaning, and often with a reference to the author who used them or to the
district
  of
Greece
  where they were current. Hence the book is of
great
  value to the student of the Greek dialects; while in the restoration of the text of the classical authors generally, and particularly of such writers as Aeschylus and Theocritus, who used many unusual words, its value can hardly be exaggerated. The explanations of many epithets and phrases. reveal many important facts about the religion and social life of the ancients. In a prefatory
letter
  Hesychius mentions that his lexicon is based on that of Diagenianus (itself extracted from an earlier
work
  by Pamphilus),
but that he has also used similar works by Aristarchus, Apion,
Heliodorus and others.
The text is very corrupt, and the order of the words has often been disturbed. There is no doubt that many interpolations, besides the Christian glosses, have been made. The
work
  has come down to us from a single MS., now in the library at Venice, from which the' editio princeps was published. The best edition is by M. Schmidt (18581868); in a smaller edition (1867) he attempts to distinguish the additions made by Hesychius to the work of Diogenianus.


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