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IAMBLICHUS , of See also:Syria, the earliest of the See also:Greek See also:romance writers, flourished in the 2nd See also:century A.D. He was the author of Ba,BuXwveaeh, the loves of Rhodanes and Sinonis, of which an See also:epitome is preserved in See also:Photius (See also:cod. 94). Garmus, a legendary See also:- KING
- KING (O. Eng. cyning, abbreviated into cyng, cing; cf. O. H. G. chun- kuning, chun- kunig, M.H.G. kiinic, kiinec, kiinc, Mod. Ger. Konig, O. Norse konungr, kongr, Swed. konung, kung)
- KING [OF OCKHAM], PETER KING, 1ST BARON (1669-1734)
- KING, CHARLES WILLIAM (1818-1888)
- KING, CLARENCE (1842–1901)
- KING, EDWARD (1612–1637)
- KING, EDWARD (1829–1910)
- KING, HENRY (1591-1669)
- KING, RUFUS (1755–1827)
- KING, THOMAS (1730–1805)
- KING, WILLIAM (1650-1729)
- KING, WILLIAM (1663–1712)
king of See also:Babylon, forces Sinonis to marry him and throws Rhodanes into See also:prison. The lovers See also:manage to See also:- ESCAPE (in mid. Eng. eschape or escape, from the O. Fr. eschapper, modern echapper, and escaper, low Lat. escapium, from ex, out of, and cappa, cape, cloak; cf. for the sense development the Gr. iichueoOat, literally to put off one's clothes, hence to sli
escape, and after many singular adventures, in which magic plays a considerable See also:part, Garmus is overthrown by Rhodanes, who becomes king of Babylon. According to Suidas, Iamblichus was a freedman, and a scholiast's See also:note on Photius further informs us that he was a native Syrian (not descended from Greek settlers); that he borrowed the material for his romance from a love See also:story told him by his Babylonian See also:tutor, and that he subsequently applied himself with See also:great success to the study of Greek. A MS. of the See also:original in the library of the See also:Escorial is said to have been destroyed by See also:fire in 167o. Only a few fragments have been preserved, in addition to Photius's epitome.
See Scriptores erotici, ed. A. Hirschig (1856) and R. Hercher (1858) ; A. See also:Mai, Scriptorum veterum nova collectio, ii.; E. Rohde, Der griechische See also:Roman (1900).
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