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POLLUX, JULIUS

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Originally appearing in Volume V22, Page 7 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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POLLUX, See also:JULIUS , of See also:Naucratis in See also:Egypt, See also:Greek grammarian and sophist of the 2nd See also:century A.U. He taught at See also:Athens, where, according to See also:Philostratus (Vit. Soph.), he was, appointed to the professorship of See also:rhetoric by the See also:emperor See also:Commodus on See also:account of his melodious See also:voice. SuIdas gives a See also:list of his rhetorical See also:works, none of which has survived. Philostratus recognizes his natural abilities, but speaks of his rhetoric in very moderate terms. Pollux is probably the See also:person attacked by See also:Lucian in the Lexiphanes and Teacher of Rhetoricians. In the Teacher of Rhetoricians Lucian satirizes a worthless and ignorant person who gains a reputation as an orator by sheer effrontery; the Lexiphanes, a See also:satire upon the use of obscure and obsolete words, may conceivably have been directed against Pollux as the author of the Onomasticon. This See also:work, which we still possess, is a Greek See also:dictionary in ten books, each dedicated to Commodus, and arranged not alphabetically but according to subject-See also:matter. Though mainly a dictionary of synonyms and phrases, chiefly intended to furnish the reader with the See also:Attic names for individual things, it supplies much rare and valuable See also:information on many points of classical antiquity. It also contains numerous fragments of writers now lost. The See also:chief authorities used were the lexicological works of See also:Didymus, Tryphon, and See also:Pamphilus; in the second See also:book the extant See also:treatise of See also:Rufus of See also:Ephesus On the Names of the Parts of the Human See also:Body was specially consulted. The chief See also:editions of the Onomasticon are those of W.

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Dindorf (1824), with the notes of previous commentators, I. See also:Bekker (1846), containing the Greek See also:text only, and Bethe (1900). There are mono-graphs on See also:special portions of the vocabulary; by E. Rohde (on the theatrical terms, 1870), and F. von Stojentin (on constitutional antiquities, 1875).

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