Harpocration
Valerius Harpocration (or Βαλέριος Ἁρποκρατίων, gen. Ἁρποκρατίωνος) was a Greek grammarian of Alexandria, probably working in the 2nd century AD. He is possibly the Harpocration mentioned by Julius Capitolinus (Life of Verus, 2) as the Greek tutor of Lucius Verus (2nd century AD); some authorities place him much later, on the ground that he borrowed from Athenaeus. Lexicon of the Ten Orators (Περὶ τῶν Λέξεων τῶν Δέκα Ῥητόρων, or briefly Λεξικὸν τῶν Δέκα Ῥητόρων), which has come down to us in an incomplete form, contains, in more or less alphabetical order, notes on well-known events and persons mentioned by the orators, and explanations of legal and commercial expressions. Amongst his authorities were the writers of Atthides (histories of Attica), the grammarian Didymus Chalcenterus, Dionysius of Halicarnassus, and the lexicographer Dionysius, son of Tryphon.
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Valerius Harpocration (or Βαλέριος Ἁρποκρατίων, gen. Ἁρποκρατίωνος) was a Greek grammarian of Alexandria, probably working in the 2nd century AD. He is possibly the Harpocration mentioned by Julius Capitolinus (Life of Verus, 2) as the Greek tutor of Lucius Verus (2nd century AD); some authorities place him much later, on the ground that he borrowed from Athenaeus. Lexicon of the Ten Orators (Περὶ τῶν Λέξεων τῶν Δέκα Ῥητόρων, or briefly Λεξικὸν τῶν Δέκα Ῥητόρων), which has come down to us in an incomplete form, contains, in more or less alphabetical order, notes on well-known events and persons mentioned by the orators, and explanations of legal and commercial expressions. Amongst his authorities were the writers of Atthides (histories of Attica), the grammarian Didymus Chalcenterus, Dionysius of Halicarnassus, and the lexicographer Dionysius, son of Tryphon.
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The book also contains contributions to the history of Attic oratory and Greek literature generally. The Collection of Florid Expressions, a sort of anthology or chrestomathy attributed to him by the Suda, is lost, but elements of it survive in later lexica. A series of articles in the margin of a Cambridge manuscript of the Lexicon forms the basis of the Lexicon rhetoricum Cantabrigiense by Peter Paul Dobree.
• Immanuel Bekker (1833) • W. Dindorf (1853) • Georg Kalkoff, De cod. epitomes Harpocrationeae (1886) • John J. Keaney, Harpocration: Lexeis of the Ten Orators (1991)
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Harpocration [2], Lexicon of Greek Grammarians of Antiquity
Harpocration [4], Lexicon of Greek Grammarians of Antiquity
Les marginalia au Lexique d’Harpocration dans le manuscrit Laurentianus graecus Pluteus 58.4: formes et fonctions, Kentron, 2024
Harpocration and the Συναγωγή, Greek, Roman, and Byzantine Studies, 2004
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- 1.Julio Capitolino, Verus 2
- 2.Maussac, Dissertatio critica de Harpocratione ejusque scriptis, en la edición crítica de Blankaart.
- 3.Libanio, Cartas 367.
- 4.Ulpiano, Harpocración. Commentarioli in Olynthiacas Philippicasque Demosthenis Orationes.
- 5.Harpocración, Maussac, P. J. Harpocrationis Dictionarium in decem rhetores.
- 6.Harpocración, Maussac, P. J., Valois, H., Blankaart, N. Harpocrationis Lexicon decem oratorum.
- 7.Harpocración, Gronovio, J. Valerii Harpocrationis De vocibus liber.
- 8.Harpocración. Harpocrationis Lexicon.
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