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Valerius Harpocration ( or , ''gen''. Ἁρποκρατίωνος) was a
Greek
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grammarian
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of
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, probably working in the 2nd century AD. He is possibly the Harpocration mentioned by
Julius Capitolinus (''Life of Verus'', 2) as the Greek tutor of
Lucius Verus
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(2nd century AD); some authorities place him much later, on the ground that he borrowed from
Athenaeus
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.
Harpocration's ''Lexicon of the Ten Orators'' (Περὶ τῶν Λέξεων τῶν Δέκα Ῥητόρων, or briefly Λεξικὸν τῶν Δέκα Ῥητόρων), which has come down to us in an incomplete form, 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 Chalcenterus
Didymus Chalcenterus (Latin; Greek: , ''Dídymos Chalkéderos'', "Didymus Bronze-Guts"; c. 63 BC – c. AD 10) was an Ancient Greek scholar and grammarian who flourished in the time of Cicero and Augustus.
Life
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,
Dionysius of Halicarnassus
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; – after 7 BC) was a Greek historian and teacher of rhetoric, who flourished during the reign of Emperor Augustus. His literary style was ''atticistic'' – imitating Classical Attic Greek in its prime.
...
, and the lexicographer
Dionysius, son of Tryphon. The book also contains contributions to the history of Attic oratory and
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generally.
The ''Collection of Florid Expressions'', a sort of anthology or
chrestomathy
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attributed to him by the ''
Suda
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'', is lost, but elements of it survive in later lexica. A series of articles in the margin of a Cambridge manuscript of the ''Lexicon'' forms the basis of the ''Lexicon rhetoricum Cantabrigiense'' by
Peter Paul Dobree
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Immanuel Bekker
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Biography
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(1833)
*
W. Dindorf (1853)
*
Georg Kalkoff
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, ''De cod. epitomes Harpocrationeae'' (1886)
*
John J. Keaney, ''Harpocration:'' Lexeis ''of the Ten Orators'' (1991)
Notes
References
Attribution:
* Endnotes:
**
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External links
Ongoing English Translation of the Lexicon
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Ancient Greek grammarians
2nd-century Greek writers
Year of birth unknown
Year of death unknown
Roman-era Alexandrians