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SIYIDAS , See also:Greek lexicographer. Nothing is known of him, except that he must have lived before See also:Eustathius (12th—13th See also:century), who frequently quotes him. Under the heading " See also:Adam " the author of the See also:lexicon (which a prefatory See also:note states to be " by Suidas ") gives a brief See also:chronology of the See also:world, ending with the See also:death of the See also:emperor See also:John Zimisces (975), and under "See also:Constantinople " his successors See also:Basil and See also:Constantine are mentioned. It would thus appear that Suidas lived in the latter See also:part of the xoth century. The passages in which See also:Michael See also:Psellus (end of the x Ith century) is referred to are considered later interpolations. The lexicon of Suidas is arranged alphabetically with some slight deviations, letters and combinations of letters having the same See also:sound being placed together; thus, at and e follow 8, and et, n, 1 follow . It partakes of the nature of a See also:dictionary and See also:encyclopaedia. It includes numerous quotations from See also:ancient writers; the scholiasts on See also:Aristophanes, See also:Homer, See also:Sophocles and See also:Thucydides are also much used. The See also:biographical notices, the author tells us, are condensed from the Onomatologion or Pinax of See also:Hesychius of See also:Miletus; other See also:sources were the excerpts of Constantine Porphyrogenitus, the See also:chronicle of Georgius Monachus, the See also:biographies of See also:Diogenes Laertius and the See also:works of See also:Athenaeus and See also:Philostratus. The See also:work deals with scriptural as well as See also:pagan subjects, from which it is inferred that the writer was a See also:Christian. A prefatory note gives a See also:list of dictionaries from which the lexical portion was compiled, together with the names of their authors. Although the work is uncritical and probably much interpolated, and the value of the articles is very unequal, it contains much See also:information on ancient See also:history and See also:life.
Editio princeps, by See also:Demetrius Chalcondyles (1499) ; later See also:editions by L. Mister (1705), T. See also:Gaisford (1834), G. See also:Bernhardy (1834—1853) and I. See also:Bekker (1854); see A. See also:Daub, De S. Biographicorum origin et fide (188o) and Studien zu den Biographika See also:des S. (1882); and J. E. See also:Sandys, Hist. of Cassical Scholarship (1906), p. 407.
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