See also:

• NONNUS (Egyptian for " saint ")

NONNUS (See also:

• EGYPTIAN

Egyptian for " See also:

• SAINT (lat. sanctus, " holy ")

saint ")  , See also:

• GREEK
• GREEK, ETRUSCAN AND

Greek epic poet, a native of Panopolis (See also:

• AKHMIM

Akhmim) in the See also:

• EGYPTIAN

Egyptian Thebaid, probably lived at the end of the 4th or the beginning of the 5th See also:

• CENTURY (from Lat. centuria, a division of a hundred men)

century A.D . His See also:

• PRINCIPAL

principal See also:

• WORK

work is the Dionysiaca, an epic in See also:

• FORTY

forty-eight books, the See also:

• MAIN (from the Aryan root which appears in " may " and " might," and Lat. magnus, great)
• MAIN (Lat. Moenus)

main subject of which is the expedition of See also:

• DIONYSUS (probably = " son of Zeus," from & Os and vv(7os, a Thracian word for " son ")

Dionysus to See also:

• INDIA
• INDIA, FRENCH

India and his return . The earlier portions treat of the See also:

• RAPE
• RAPE (from Lat. rapere, to seize)
• RAPE (Lat. rapum or rapa, turnip)

rape of See also:

• EUROPA (or rather, EUROPE)

Europa, the See also:

• BATTLE

battle of the giants, the mythical See also:

• HISTORY

history of See also:

• THEBES (anciently &Oat, Thebae, or in poetry sometimes Oif3a, in modern Greek Phiva, or, according to the corrected pronunciation, Thivae)
• THEBES (e 3a1)
• THEBES, ROMANCE OF

Thebes, and it is not until the eighth See also:

• BOOK

book that the See also:

• BIRTH (a word common in various forms to Teutonic languages from the root of the verb " to bear ")

birth of the See also:

• GOD

god is described . Other poets had already treated the subject, and since the See also:

• TIME (0. Eng. Lima, cf. Icel. timi, Swed. timme, hour, Dan. time; from the root also seen in " tide," properly the time of between the flow and ebb of the sea, cf. O. Eng. getidan, to happen, " even-tide," &c.; it is not directly related to Lat. tempus)
• TIME, MEASUREMENT OF
• TIME, STANDARD

time of See also:

• ALEXANDER
• ALEXANDER (1461-1506)
• ALEXANDER (ALEXANDER OF BATTENBERG) (1857-1893)
• ALEXANDER (ALEXANDER OsxENOVici) (1876-1903)
• ALEXANDER, ARCHIBALD (1772—1851)
• ALEXANDER, FRANCIS (1800—1881)
• ALEXANDER, GEORGE (1858— )
• ALEXANDER, JOHN WHITE (1856- )
• ALEXANDER, JOSEPH ADDISON (18o9—186o)
• ALEXANDER, SIR JAMES EDWARD (1803—1885)
• ALEXANDER, WILLIAM (1824— )
• ALEXANDER, WILLIAM LINDSAY (1808—1884)

Alexander it had gained popularity from the favourite comparison of the See also:

• KING
• KING (O. Eng. cyning, abbreviated into cyng, cing; cf. O. H. G. chun- kuning, chun- kunig, M.H.G. kiinic, kiinec, kiinc, Mod. Ger. Konig, O. Norse konungr, kongr, Swed. konung, kung)
• KING [OF OCKHAM], PETER KING, 1ST BARON (1669-1734)
• KING, CHARLES WILLIAM (1818-1888)
• KING, CLARENCE (1842–1901)
• KING, EDWARD (1612–1637)
• KING, EDWARD (1829–1910)
• KING, HENRY (1591-1669)
• KING, RUFUS (1755–1827)
• KING, THOMAS (1730–1805)
• KING, WILLIAM (1650-1729)
• KING, WILLIAM (1663–1712)

king with the god and of his enemies with the giants . In its vast and formless luxuriance, its beautiful but artificial versification, its delineation of See also:

• ACTION

action and See also:

• PASSION (post-classical Lat. passio, formed from pati, passus, to suffer, endure)

passion to the entire neglect of See also:

• CHARACTER (Gr. xapareri7p, from xap&crew, to scratch)

character, the poem resembles the epics of India . Like his countryman Claudian, See also:

• NONNUS (Egyptian for " saint ")

Nonnus is a writer of copious learning and still more copious See also:

• FANCY (a shortened form, dating from the 15th century, of " fantasy," which is derived through the O. Fr. fantasie, modern fantaisie. from the Latinized form of the Gr. cbavraoia, Oavrai'ecv, Oat Pais, to show)

fancy, whose faults are those of the See also:

• AGE (Fr. age, through late Lat. aetaticum, from aetas)

age in which he lived . His See also:

• CHIEF (from Fr. chef, head, Lat. caput)

chief merit consists in the systematic perfection to which he brought the Homeric See also:

• HEXAMETER

hexameter . But the very correctness of the versification renders it monotonous . His See also:

• INFLUENCE (Late Lat. influentia, from influere, to flow in)

influence on the vocabulary of his successors was likewise very considerable . We also possess under his name a See also:

• PARAPHRASE (Gr. irapa¢pavis, from rrapa4p4av, to relate something in different words, 'raga, beside, and ¢pai"eav, speak, tell)

paraphrase (See also:

• GERA

gera/io?i7) of the See also:

• GOSPEL (O. Eng. godspel, i.e. good news, a translation of Lat. bona annuntiatio, or evangelium, Gr. evayyeXwv; cf. Goth. iu spillon, " to announce good news," Ulfilas' translation of the Greek, from iu, that which is good, and spellon to announce)

Gospel of St See also:

• JOHN
• JOHN (1167–1216)
• JOHN (1290-c. 1320)
• JOHN (1296-1346)
• JOHN (1371–1419)
• JOHN (1468-1532)
• JOHN (1801-1873)
• JOHN (Heb. llni')
• JOHN (ZAPOLYA) (1487-1540)
• JOHN, 4TH MARQUESS OF TWEEDDALE (c. 1695-1762)
• JOHN, DON (1545-1578)
• JOHN, DON (1629–1679)
• JOHN, GOSPEL OF ST
• JOHN, or HAYS (1513–1571)
• JOHN, THE APOSTLE
• JOHN, THE EPISTLES OF

John, which is chiefly interesting as apparently indicating that Nonnus in his later years was a convert to See also:

• CHRISTIANITY

Christianity . The See also:

• STYLE
• STYLE (from Gr. a-6'1ms, a column; a different word from that used in literature, see below)

style is not inferior to that of his epic, but, employed in embellishing the See also:

• SIMPLE

simple narrative of the evangelist, it produces an impression of extreme bombast and want of See also:

• TASTE (from Lat. taxare, to touch sharply; tangere, to touch)

taste . According to an See also:

• EPIGRAM

epigram in the See also:

• PALATINE (from Lat. palatium, a palace,)

Palatine See also:

• ANTHOLOGY

Anthology (ix. r98), Nonnus was also the author of a Battle of the Giants, and four lines of the Bassarica (also on the subject of Dionysus) have been preserved in Stephanus of See also:

• BYZANTIUM

Byzantium .

Editio princeps (1569) ; H . KSchly (" Teubner " See also:

• SERIES (a Latin word from serere, to join)

series, with See also:

• CRITICAL (in alphabetical order of authors)

critical introduction and full See also:

• INDEX

index of names, 1858); the most generally useful edition is that by the See also:

• COMTE, AUGUSTE [ISIDORE AUGUSTE MARIE FRANCOIS XAVIER] (1798-1857)

comte de See also:

• MARCELLUS

Marcellus (1856), with notes and prolegomena, and a See also:

• FRENCH
• FRENCH, DANIEL CHESTER (1850– )
• FRENCH, NICHOLAS (1604-1678)

French See also:

• PROSE

prose See also:

• TRANSLATION

translation . On the See also:

• METRE ((terpuc?, sc. rFxvf, from Gr. Or poi', measure)

metre, see J . G . See also:

• HERMANN, JOHANN GOTTFRIED JAKOB (1772–1848)
• HERMANN, KARL FRIEDRICH (1804–1855)

Hermann, Orphica (1805), p . 69o; A . Ludwich, Beitrage zur Kritik See also:

• DES

des Nonnus (1873), critical, grammatical and metrical; C . See also:

• LEHRS, KARL (18o -.1878)

Lehrs, Quaestiones epicae (1837), pp . 255-302, chiefly on metrical questions; on the See also:

• SOURCES

sources, R . KShler, Ober See also:

• DIE
• DIE (Fr. de, from Lat. datum, given)

die Dionysiaka des Nonnus (1853), a See also:

• SHORT, FRANCIS JOB (1857– )

short and connected See also:

• ANALYSIS (Gr. avci and Meta, to break up into parts)

analysis of the poem, with a comparison of the earlier and later myths; see also I . Negrisoli, Studio critico . . .

Nonnus Panopolita, with short bibliography (1903) . The paraphrase on St John (editio princeps, c . 1505) is edited by F . See also:

• PASSOW, FRANZ LUDWIG CARL FRIEDRICH (1786-1833)

Passow (1834) and A . Scheindler (1881), with See also:

• COMPLETE

complete index .