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Δίδυμος νέος · Didymus the younger (δ 873) · Suda

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δ869Didymaios, Didymaean, Twin
δ870two-pronged timber, gallows
δ871Didymos, Didymus
δ872Didymus, Didymos
δ873Didymus the younger
δ874Didymus, Didymos
δ875Didymus the son of Heraclides
δ876Didymus, Didymos
δ877Didymos, Didymus, the Twin

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Δίδυμος νέος

Didymus the younger

Translated by Malcolm Heath28 Jun 2000Vetting: high5 revisions

biography
chronology
dialects, grammar, and etymology
geography
rhetoric

2 notes · 24 words

Translation

[Didymus the younger]¹ of Alexandria. Grammarian. He was a sophist in Rome. He wrote Pithana ['Plausibilities'];² On Orthography; and very many other excellent works.

Greek original · Adler’s text

Δίδυμος νέος, Ἀλεξανδρεύς, γραμματικός, ὃς ἐσοφίστευσεν ἐν Ῥώμῃ. ἔγραψε Πιθανά, Περὶ ὀρθογραφίας καὶ ἄλλα πλεῖστα καὶ ἄριστα.

Betacode

*di/dumos ne/os, *)alecandreu/s, grammatiko/s, o(\s e)sofi/steusen e)n *(rw/mh|. e)/graye *piqana/, *peri\ o)rqografi/as kai\ a)/lla plei=sta kai\ a)/rista.

Notes (2)

RE Didymos(9); NP Didymos(2).
1sc. than delta 872. ↩
2cf. delta 871.

Linked from1 entry

α3422ἈπολλώνιοςApollonius [Dyscolus], Apollonios [Duskolos][Apollonius] of Alexandria, called Dyscolus ["Curmudgeon"]; father of Herodian the technical writer. Grammarian. He wrote the following works: On the Division of the Parts of Speech (4 books); On the Syntax of the Parts…

Neighbouring entries

δ871ΔίδυμοςDidymos, Didymus δ872ΔίδυμοςDidymus, Didymos δ873Δίδυμος νέοςDidymus the younger δ874ΔίδυμοςDidymus, Didymos δ875Δίδυμος ὁ τοῦ ἩρακλείδουDidymus the son of Heraclides

Revision history5 revisions · last 4 Jul 2012

4 Jul 2012augmented notes and keywords; cosmetics — David Whitehead
15 Oct 2003augmented translation — David Whitehead
24 Mar 2002cosmetics, keywords — Catharine Roth
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28 Jun 2000Translated — Malcolm Heath

Cite this entry

Suda On Line, s.v. Δίδυμος νέος (Adler number delta 873), trans. Malcolm Heath, 28 Jun 2000. https://www.cs.uky.edu/~raphael/sol/sol-entries/delta/873

Translation by Malcolm Heath for Suda On Line, revised by David Whitehead, Catharine Roth, , licensed CC BY-NC-SA 4.0. Shown unchanged, under the same licence, non-commercially. Original on SOL ↗