ZENOBIUS  , a

Greek sophist, who taught rhetoric at Rome during the reign of Hadrian (A.D . 117—138) . He was the author of a collection of proverbs in three books, still extant in an abridged form, compiled, according to Sufdas, from Didymus of Alexandria and " The Tarrhaean " (Lucillus of Tarrha in Crete) . Zenobius is also said to have been the author of a Greek translation of Sallust and of a birthday poem (yeveOAtaKOv) on Hadrian . Editions by T . Gaisford (1836) and E . L . Leutsch-F . W . Schneidewin (1839), and in B . E . Miller, Melanges de litterature grecque (1868); see also W .

Christ, Griechische Litteraturgeschichte (1898) .