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ARISTAENETUS

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Greek epistolographer, flourished in the 5th or 6th See also:century A.D. He was formerly identified with Aristaenetus of See also:Nicaea (the friend of See also:Symmachus), who perished in an See also:earthquake at See also:Nicomedia, A.D. 358, but See also:internal See also:evidence points to a much later date. Under his name two books of love stories, in the See also:form of letters, are extant; the subjects are borrowed from the erotic elegies of such Alexandrian writers as See also:Callimachus, and the See also:language is a patchwork of phrases from See also:Plato, See also:Lucian, See also:Alciphron and others. The' stories are feeble and insipid, and full of See also:strange and improbable incidents. See also:Text: Boissonade (1822); Hercher, Epistolographi Graeci (1873). See also:English See also:translations: See also:Boyer (1701); See also:Thomas See also:Brown (1715); R. B. See also:Sheridan and Halked (1771 and later).

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