Zenobius ( grc-gre, Ζηνόβιος) was a

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, who taught rhetoric at

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during the reign of Emperor Hadrian (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'' ,Suda ζ 73 from

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and "The Tarrhaean" ( Lucillus of

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, a polis in

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). In the work, the proverbs are alphabetised and grouped by hundreds. This collection was first printed by Filippo Giunti in Florence, 1497. Zenobius is also said to have been the author of a Greek translation of the Latin prose author

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, 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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