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HARPOCRATION, VALERIUS

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HARPOCRATION, See also:VALERIUS , See also:Greek grammarian of See also:Alexandria. He is possibly the Harpocration mentioned by See also:Julius Capitolinus (See also:Life of Verus, 2) as the Greek See also:tutor of See also:Antoninus Verus (2nd See also:century A.D.); some authorities See also:place him much later, on the ground that he borrowed from See also:Athenaeus. He is the author of a AeEdam (or lIepI Tiav )iEewv) i&w Sfsa p1]TOpcov, which has come down to us in an incomplete See also:form. The See also:work contains, in more or less alphabetical See also:order, notes on well-known events and persons mentioned by the orators, and explanations of legal and commercial expressions. As nearly all the lexicons to the Greek orators have been lost, Harpocration's work is especially valuable. Amongst his authorities were the writers of Atthides (histories of See also:Attica), the grammarian See also:Didymus, See also:Dionysius of See also:Halicarnassus, and the lexicographer Dionysius, son of Tryphon. The See also:book also contains contributions to the See also:history of See also:Attic See also:oratory and Greek literature generally. Nothing is known of an 'AvOnPwv vuvaye.yi7, a sort of See also:anthology or chrestomathy attributed to him by Suidas. A See also:series of articles in the margin of a See also:Cambridge MS. of the See also:lexicon forms the basis of the Lexicon rhetoricum Cantabrigiense (see See also:DOBREE, P. P.). The best edition is by W. See also:Dindorf (1853); see also J.

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Sandys, History of Classical Scholarship, i. (1906), p. 325; C. Boysen, De Harpocrationis fontibus (See also:Kiel, 1876).

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