See also:

• JULIUS

JULIUS See also:

• JULIUS POLLUX
• POLLUX, or POLLUCITE

POLLUX  , of See also:

• NAUCRATIS

Naucratis in See also:

• EGYPT

Egypt, See also:

• GREEK
• GREEK, ETRUSCAN AND

Greek grammarian and sophist of the 2nd See also:

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

century A.U . He taught at See also:

• ATHENS
• ATHENS ['AN vat, Athenae, modem colloquial Greek `Ath va]

Athens, where, according to See also:

• PHILOSTRATUS

Philostratus (Vit . Soph.), he was, appointed to the professorship of See also:

• RHETORIC (Gr. psroperctj TEXvq, the art of the orator)

rhetoric by the See also:

• EMPEROR (Fr. empereur, from the Lat. imperator)

emperor See also:

• COMMODUS, LUCIUS AELIUS AURELIUS (161-192)

Commodus on See also:

• ACCOUNT
• ACCOUNT (through O. Fr. acont, Late Lat. comptum, cornputare, to calculate)

account of his melodious See also:

• VOICE (Fr. voix, from Lat. vox)

voice . SuIdas gives a See also:

• LIST (O.E. lisle, a Teutonic word, cf. Dut. lust, Ger. Leiste, adapted in Ital. lista and Fr. lisle)
• LIST, FRIEDRICH (1789-1846)

list of his rhetorical See also:

• WORKS

works, none of which has survived . Philostratus recognizes his natural abilities, but speaks of his rhetoric in very moderate terms . See also:

• POLLUX, JULIUS
• POLLUX, or POLLUCITE

Pollux is probably the See also:

• PERSON, OFFENCES AGAINST THE

person attacked by See also:

• LUCIAN (d. 312)
• LUCIAN [Aowaavos] (c. A.D. 120-180)

Lucian in the Lexiphanes and Teacher of Rhetoricians . In the Teacher of Rhetoricians Lucian satirizes a worthless and ignorant person who gains a reputation as an orator by sheer effrontery; the Lexiphanes, a See also:

• SATIRE (Lat. satira, satura; see below)

satire upon the use of obscure and obsolete words, may conceivably have been directed against Pollux as the author of the Onomasticon . This See also:

• WORK

work, which we still possess, is a Greek See also:

• DICTIONARY

dictionary in ten books, each dedicated to Commodus, and arranged not alphabetically but according to subject-See also:

• MATTER

matter . Though mainly a dictionary of synonyms and phrases, chiefly intended to furnish the reader with the See also:

• ATTIC (i.e. "in the Attic style ")

Attic names for individual things, it supplies much rare and valuable See also:

• INFORMATION (from Lat. informare, to give shape or form to, to represent, describe)

information on many points of classical antiquity . It also contains numerous fragments of writers now lost . The See also:

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

chief authorities used were the lexicological works of See also:

• DIDYMUS (?3o9-?394)

Didymus, Tryphon, and See also:

• PAMPHILUS
• PAMPHILUS (1st century A.D.)

Pamphilus; in the second See also:

• BOOK

book the extant See also:

• TREATISE

treatise of See also:

• RUFUS, GAIUS VALGIUS
• RUFUS, LUCIUS VARIUS (c 74—14 B.c.)

Rufus of See also:

• EPHESUS
• EPHESUS, COUNCIL OF

Ephesus On the Names of the Parts of the Human See also:

• BODY

Body was specially consulted . The chief See also:

• EDITIONS

editions of the Onomasticon are those of W .

See also:

• DINDORF, KARL WILHELM (1802-1883)

Dindorf (1824), with the notes of previous commentators, I . See also:

• BEKKER (or WOLFF), ELIZABETH (1738–1804)
• BEKKER, AUGUST IMMANUEL (1785–1871)
• BEKKER, BALTHASAR (1634–1698)

Bekker (1846), containing the Greek See also:

• TEXT (Lat. textum, woven fabric, from texere, to weave)

text only, and Bethe (1900) . There are mono-graphs on See also:

• SPECIAL

special portions of the vocabulary; by E . Rohde (on the theatrical terms, 1870), and F. von Stojentin (on constitutional antiquities, 1875) .