ZENOBIUS

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ZENOBIUS , a

Greek

GREEK
GREEK, ETRUSCAN AND

sophist, who taught

rhetoric

RHETORIC (Gr. psroperctj TEXvq, the art of the orator)

at Rome during the reign of Hadrian (A.D. 117138). He was the author of a collection of

proverbs

PROVERBS,
BOOK
- BOOK
OF (Heb. Mishle Slzelomoh, " Proverbs of Solomon," abridged by the later
Jews
- JEWS
- JEWS (Heb. Y8hudi, man of Judah; Gr. 'Iovbaiot; Lat. Judaei)
to Mishle;
Septuagint
- SEPTUAGINT, THE (Gr. of 0', Lat. LXX.)
, irapotpiai or II. EaX.; Lat. Vulg. Parabolae sal. and Liber proverbiorum)

in three books, still extant in an abridged form, compiled, according to Sufdas, from Didymus of

Alexandria

ALEXANDRIA
ALEXANDRIA (Arab. Iskenderia)

and " The Tarrhaean " (Lucillus of Tarrha in

Crete

CRETE (Gr. Kp;rrrr; Turk. Kirid, Ital. Candia)

). Zenobius is also said to have been the author of a

Greek

GREEK
GREEK, ETRUSCAN AND

translation

TRANSLATION

of Sallust and of a birthday poem (yeveOAtaKOv) on Hadrian.
Editions by T. Gaisford (1836) and E. L. Leutsch-F. W.

Schneidewin

SCHNEIDEWIN, FRIEDRICH WILHELM (1810—1856)

(1839), and in B. E. Miller, Melanges de litterature grecque (1868); see also W. Christ, Griechische Litteraturgeschichte (1898).

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