ARISTAENETUS
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Originally appearing in Volume
V02,
Page 493
of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
ARISTAENETUS
, See also:Greek epistolographer, flourished in the 5th or 6th See also:century A.D
.
He was formerly identified with Aristaenetus of See also:Nicaea (the friend of See also:Symmachus), who perished in an See also:earthquake at See also:Nicomedia, A.D
.
358, but See also:internal See also:evidence points to a much later date
.
Under his name two books of love stories, in the See also:form of letters, are extant; the subjects are borrowed from the erotic elegies of such Alexandrian writers as See also:Callimachus, and the See also:language is a patchwork of phrases from See also:Plato, See also:Lucian, See also:Alciphron and others
.
The' stories are feeble and insipid, and full of See also:strange and improbable incidents
.
See also:Text: Boissonade (1822); Hercher, Epistolographi Graeci (1873)
.
See also:English See also:translations: See also:Boyer (1701); See also:- THOMAS
- THOMAS (c. 1654-1720)
- THOMAS (d. 110o)
- THOMAS, ARTHUR GORING (1850-1892)
- THOMAS, CHARLES LOUIS AMBROISE (1811-1896)
- THOMAS, GEORGE (c. 1756-1802)
- THOMAS, GEORGE HENRY (1816-187o)
- THOMAS, ISAIAH (1749-1831)
- THOMAS, PIERRE (1634-1698)
- THOMAS, SIDNEY GILCHRIST (1850-1885)
- THOMAS, ST
- THOMAS, THEODORE (1835-1905)
- THOMAS, WILLIAM (d. 1554)
Thomas See also:- BROWN
- BROWN, CHARLES BROCKDEN (1771-181o)
- BROWN, FORD MADOX (1821-1893)
- BROWN, FRANCIS (1849- )
- BROWN, GEORGE (1818-188o)
- BROWN, HENRY KIRKE (1814-1886)
- BROWN, JACOB (1775–1828)
- BROWN, JOHN (1715–1766)
- BROWN, JOHN (1722-1787)
- BROWN, JOHN (1735–1788)
- BROWN, JOHN (1784–1858)
- BROWN, JOHN (1800-1859)
- BROWN, JOHN (1810—1882)
- BROWN, JOHN GEORGE (1831— )
- BROWN, ROBERT (1773-1858)
- BROWN, SAMUEL MORISON (1817—1856)
- BROWN, SIR GEORGE (1790-1865)
- BROWN, SIR JOHN (1816-1896)
- BROWN, SIR WILLIAM, BART
- BROWN, THOMAS (1663-1704)
- BROWN, THOMAS (1778-1820)
- BROWN, THOMAS EDWARD (1830-1897)
- BROWN, WILLIAM LAURENCE (1755–1830)
Brown (1715); R
.
B
.
See also:Sheridan and Halked (1771 and later)
.
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