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HEPHAESTION

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Originally appearing in Volume V13, Page 304 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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HEPHAESTION  , a grammarian of

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Alexandria, who flourished in the
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age of the Antonines . He was the author of a
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manual (abridged from a larger
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work in 48 books) of
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Greek metres ('Ey €tpi&&ov 7rspl /AT pWV), which is most valuable as the only
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complete
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treatise on the subject that has been preserved . The concluding
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chapter (Ilspi vrou7µaros) discusses the various kinds of poetical
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composition . It is written in a clear and
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simple
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style, and was much used as a school-
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book .
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Editions by T .
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Gaisford (1855, with the valuable scholia), R .
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Westphal (1886, in Scriptores metrici Graeci) and M . Consbruch (1906);
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translation by T . F .
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Barham (1843); see also W .
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Christ, Gesch. der griech . Litt .

(1898); M . Consbruch, De veterum IIept iroiiµaros doctrina (1890) ; J . E .

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Sandys, Hist . Class . Schol. i . (1906) .

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