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See also:PAMPHILUS (1st See also:century A.D.) , a See also:Greek grammarian, of the school of See also:Aristarchus . He was the author of a comprehensive See also:lexicon, in 95 books, of See also:foreign or obscure words (yXiirrat trot MEets), the See also:idea of which was credited to another grammarian, Zopyrion, himself the compiler of the first four books . The See also:work itself is lost, but an See also:epitome by See also:Diogenianus (2nd See also:century) formed the basis of the lexicon of See also:Hesychius . A similar compilation, called Aetµc:Wv (" meadow "; cf. the Praia of Suetonius) from its varied contents, dealing chiefly with mythological marvels, was probably a supplement to the lexicon, although some scholars identify them . See also:Pamphilus was one of the See also:chief authorities used by See also:Athenaeus in the Deipnosophists . Suidas assigns to another Pamphilus, simply described as " a philosopher," a number of See also:works, some of which were probably by Pamphilus the grammarian . See G . Thilo in See also:Ersch and See also:Gruber's Allgemeine Encyclopadie, M . See also:Schmidt, appendix to his edition of Hesychius, (1862) vol. iv.; A . Westermann in Pauly's Real-encyclopddie (1848) . |
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