Cleitarchus of Aegina
Cleitarchus (Ancient Greek: Κλείταρχος ἐξ Αἰγίνης), originally from Aegina, was a grammarian and lexicographer active in either the 1st or 2nd century BC. He wrote a seven-book treatise titled "Languages" or "On Languages", in which he presented the peculiarities of various Greek dialects and interpreted a multitude of idiomatic words, as well as words derived from specialized professional glossaries.[1]
Cleitarchus and his work are mentioned by Athenaeus,[2] Proclus,[3] Harpocration,[4] and the Byzantine Etymologicum Magnum[5] among others.
All the surviving fragments were collected and published in 1842 in Berlin.[6]
References
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[edit]- Athenaeus. Deipnosophists. Vol. Book VII. Retrieved 2024-01-01.
- Hofinger, Marcel (1985). Lexicon Hesiodeum (in French). Brill. Retrieved 2024-01-01.
- Harpocration's Lexicon (in Greek). Vol. I. 1824.
Epileptas, Lysias in the case against Nicias, if genuine. Epibleptas is, as Timachidas says, a beam; but according to Cleitarchus the glossographer, it is a kind of beam.
- "Entry on Bruchos". Mega Etymologicon (in Greek). Lipsiae Apud J.A.G. Weigel. 1816.
Cleitarchus says that according to the Ambraciots, the grasshopper is called mastax.
- Pavlos Drandakis, ed. (1926–1934). Great Greek Encyclopedia (Μεγάλη Ελληνική Εγκυκλοπαίδεια) (in Greek).
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