Τυραννίων

Tyrannio, Tyrannion

Translated by Malcolm Heath26 Mar 1999Vetting: high6 revisions

3 notes · 143 words
The younger; of Phoenicia; his father was Artemidorus. A pupil of the older Tyrannio;1 this is why he was named Tyrannio (previously he had been called Diocles). He too was taken prisoner, during the war between Antony and Caesar,2 and was bought by one Dymas, who was a freedman of Caesar. Then he was given to Terentia, Cicero's wife. He was freed by her, and was a sophist in Rome. He wrote about 65 books, including the following: On Homeric Prosody; On the Parts of Speech, in which he says that proper names are indivisible, and that appelatives can form the bases for derivatives, while participles cannot; On the Roman Dialect, that the Roman dialect is derived from Greek and not indigenous;3 The Disagreement of Modern Poets with Homer; Exegesis of Tyrannio's Division of the Parts of Speech; Textual Criticism of Homer; Orthography.

Greek original · Adler’s text

Τυραννίων, ὁ νεώτερος, Φοίνιξ, πατρὸς Ἀρτεμιδώρου, μαθητὴς Τυραννίωνος τοῦ πρεσβυτέρου· διὸ καὶ ὠνομάσθη Τυραννίων, πρότερον καλούμενος Διοκλῆς. αἰχμάλωτος δὲ γενόμενος καὶ αὐτὸς ἐπὶ τοῦ πολέμου Ἀντωνίου καὶ Καίσαρος ὑπό τινος Δύμαντος ὠνήθη, τοῦ Καίσαρος ὄντος ἀπελευθέρου, εἶτα ἐδωρήθη Τερεντίᾳ τῇ τοῦ Κικέρωνος γυναικί. ἐλευθερωθεὶς δὲ ὑπ' αὐτῆς ἐσοφίστευσεν ἐν Ῥώμῃ. καὶ ἔγραψε βιβλία πρὸς ηʹ καὶ ξʹ, ὧν καὶ ταῦτα· Περὶ τῆς Ὁμηρικῆς προσῳδίας, Περὶ τῶν μερῶν τοῦ λόγου, ἐν ᾧ λέγει, ἄτομα μὲν εἶναι τὰ κύρια ὀνόματα, θεματικὰ δὲ τὰ προσηγορικά, ἀθέματα δὲ τὰ μετοχικά· Περὶ τῆς Ῥωμαϊκῆς διαλέκτου ὅτι ἐστὶν ἐκ τῆς Ἑλληνικῆς, ἐκ τοῦ Ἀντιγένους ὅτι ἀντιγένης ἡ Ῥωμαϊκὴ διάλεκτος, Ὅ τι διαφωνοῦσιν οἱ νεώτεροι ποιηταὶ πρὸς Ὅμηρον, Ἐξήγησιν τοῦ Τυραννίωνος μερισμοῦ, Διόρθωσιν Ὁμηρικήν, Ὀρθογραφίαν.

Betacode
*turanni/wn, o( new/teros, *foi/nic, patro\s *)artemidw/rou, maqhth\s *turanni/wnos tou= presbute/rou: dio\ kai\ w)noma/sqh *turanni/wn, pro/teron kalou/menos *dioklh=s. ai)xma/lwtos de\ geno/menos kai\ au)to\s e)pi\ tou= pole/mou *)antwni/ou kai\ *kai/saros u(po/ tinos *du/mantos w)nh/qh, tou= *kai/saros o)/ntos a)peleuqe/rou, ei)=ta e)dwrh/qh *terenti/a| th=| tou= *kike/rwnos gunaiki/. e)leuqerwqei\s de\ u(p' au)th=s e)sofi/steusen e)n *(rw/mh|. kai\ e)/graye bibli/a pro\s h# kai\ c#, w(=n kai\ tau=ta: *peri\ th=s *(omhrikh=s  prosw|di/as, *peri\ tw=n merw=n tou= lo/gou, e)n w(=| le/gei, a)/toma me\n ei)=nai ta\ ku/ria o)no/mata, qematika\ de\ ta\ proshgorika/, a)qe/mata de\ ta\ metoxika/: *peri\ th=s *(rwmai+kh=s diale/ktou o(/ti e)sti\n e)k th=s *(ellhnikh=s, e)k tou= *)antige/nous o(/ti a)ntige/nhs h( *(rwmai+kh\ dia/lektos, *(/o ti diafwnou=sin oi( new/teroi poihtai\ pro\s *(/omhron, *)ech/ghsin tou= *turanni/wnos merismou=, *dio/rqwsin *(omhrikh/n, *)orqografi/an.

Notes (3)

  1. C1 BC. See generally RE Tyrannion(3); OCD4 Tyrannio(2).
  2. 1[tau 1184] Tyrannio. ↩
  3. 2'Caesar' will be Octavian -- but the chronology does not seem to fit. Adler notes that Bernhardy doubted the transmitted name 'Antony', and she mentions A. Daub's suggestion that we should read 'Pompey'. ↩
  4. 3The text is corrupt; I have translated the reconstruction in fr. 63 Haas. ↩

References


W. Haas, Die Fragmente der Grammatiker Tyrannion und Diokles (SGLG 3, Berlin 1977)

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Revision history6 revisions · last 2 Aug 2014
  1. updated a ref — David Whitehead
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  3. another keyword; cosmetics — David Whitehead
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  6. added keywords; cosmetics — David Whitehead
  7. Translated — Malcolm Heath

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