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HERENNIUS See also: Greek grammarian, was See also: born, according to Suidas, in A.D
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42
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He lived into the reign of See also: Hadrian, of which he wrote a See also: history, now lost
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He was the author of various See also: works: On the Acquisition and Choice of Books; On Cities and their Famous Men, epitomized by the grammarian Aelius See also: Serenus, and one of the chief authorities used by See also: Hesychius and Stephanus of See also: Byzantium; On Synonyms, of which there is extant an epitome by Ammonius Grammaticus
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But he is chiefly known for his See also: translation of the Phoenician history of Sanchuniathon, who was said to have lived before the Trojan war
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Of this See also: work considerable fragments have been preserved, chiefly by See also: Eusebius in the Praeparatio evangelica (i
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9, ro; iv
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16)
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They See also: present a euhemeristic rechauffe of Phoenician See also: theology and See also: mythology, which is represented as translated from the See also: original Phoenician
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Sanchuniathon is probably an imaginary personage, whose name is formed from that of the Phoenician See also: god Sanchon
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See also: Editions of the fragments by J
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C
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Orelli (1826) and C . See also: Muller, Frag. hist. graec. vol. iii
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In 186 F
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Wagenfeld brought out what claimed to be a
See also: complete translation by See also: Philo (from a MS. discovered in a convent in See also: Portugal, now considered See also: spurious)
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There are See also: English See also: translations by I
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P
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See also: Cory (1828) and See also: Bishop R
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See also: Cumberland (1720)
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