Λούπερκος

Lupercus

Translated by Malcolm Heath30 Aug 2003Vetting: high5 revisions

4 notes · 63 words

Translation

of Berytus.1 Grammarian. He lived a little before the time of the Caesar Claudius II.2 He wrote On the Word a)/n (3 books); On the Word taw/s; On the Shrimp; On the Cock in Plato; The Foundation of Arsinoe in Egypt; Attic Diction;3 Art of Grammar; On the Masculine, Feminine and Neuter Genders (13 books), in which he outdoes Herodian4 in many points.

Greek original · Adler’s text

Λούπερκος, Βηρύτιος, γραμματικός, γεγονὼς μικρῷ πρὸ τῶν Κλαυδίου τοῦ δευτέρου Καίσαρος χρόνων. ἔγραψε Περὶ τοῦ ἂν γʹ, Περὶ τοῦ ταώς, Περὶ τῆς καρίδος, Περὶ τοῦ παρὰ Πλάτωνι ἀλεκτρυόνος, Κτίσιν τοῦ ἐν Αἰγύπτῳ Ἀρσινοήτου, Ἀττικὰς λέξεις, Τέχνην γραμματικήν, Περὶ γενῶν ἀρρενικῶν καὶ θηλυκῶν καὶ οὐδετέρων βιβλία ιγʹ· ἐν οἷς πολλὰ κατευδοκιμεῖ Ἡρωδιανοῦ.

Betacode
*lou/perkos, *bhru/tios, grammatiko/s, gegonw\s mikrw=| pro\ tw=n *klaudi/ou tou= deute/rou *kai/saros xro/nwn. e)/graye *peri\ tou= a)\n g#, *peri\ tou= taw/s, *peri\ th=s kari/dos, *peri\ tou= para\ *pla/twni a)lektruo/nos, *kti/sin tou= e)n *ai)gu/ptw| *)arsinoh/tou, *)attika\s le/ceis, *te/xnhn grammatikh/n, *peri\ genw=n a)rrenikw=n kai\ qhlukw=n kai\ ou)dete/rwn bibli/a ig#: e)n oi(=s polla\ kateudokimei= *(hrwdianou=. 

Notes (4)

  1. C3 AD. See generally RE Lupercus(5); FGrH 636.
  2. 1Present-day Beirut. ↩
  3. 2Claudius Gothicus, reigned 268-270. ↩
  4. 3Mentioned also in the list of authorities in the Suda's preface. ↩
  5. 4cf. eta 546: Herodian. ↩

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Revision history5 revisions · last 15 Jun 2020
  1. coding — Catharine Roth
  2. coding — Catharine Roth
  3. Revised — David Whitehead
  4. augmented notes; added a keyword — David Whitehead
  5. Cosmetics, added keywords, set status — William Hutton
  6. Translated — Malcolm Heath

Cite this entry

“Lupercus.” Suda On Line. Tr. Malcolm Heath. 30 August 2003. <https://www.cs.uky.edu/~raphael/sol/sol-entries/lambda/691>. Read at ReadSuda: <https://readsuda.org/lambda/691>.

Translation by Malcolm Heath for Suda On Line, revised by Catharine Roth, David Whitehead, William Hutton, licensed CC BY-NC-SA 1.0. Shown unchanged, under the same licence, non-commercially. Licence & terms

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