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:''This article deals with the grammarian. For other persons of the same name, see Phrynichus.''
'Phrynichus Arabius' or 'Phrynichus of Bithynia' (Greek: '') was a Greek grammarian who flourished in second century Bithynia, writing works on Attic usage. Also Latinized Phrynichos or Phrynikhos.
The ''Suda'' states:
: [1]
:"Phrynichus of Bithynia, sophist. He wrote
:
★ ''Atticist'', or ''On Attic Words'' () in two books;
:
★ ''Collection of Usages'' ()
:
★ ''Sophistic Preparations'' ( (47 books, but some say 74)"
As models of Attic style Phrynichus assigns the highest place to Plato, Demosthenes, and Aeschines the Socratic. The work was learned, but prolix and garrulous. A fragment contained in a Paris MS. was published by B. de Montfaucon, and by I. Bekker [2]. Another work of Phrynichus, not mentioned by Photius, but perhaps identical with the Atticist mentioned by Suidas, the ''Selection () of Attic Words and Phrases'', is extant. It is dedicated to Cornelianus, a man of literary tastes, and one of the imperial secretaries, who had invited the author to undertake the work; it is a collection of current words and forms which deviated from the Old Attic standard, the true Attic equivalents being given side by side. The work is thus a lexicon antibarbarum, and is interesting as illustrating the changes through which the Greek language had passed between the 4th century B.C. and the 2nd century A.D.
Editions of the ''Eklogê'', with valuable notes, have been published by C. A. Lobeck (1820) and W. G. Rutherford (1881); Lobeck devotes his attention chiefly to the later, Rutherford to the earlier usages noticed by Phrynichus. See also J. Brenous, ''De Phrynicho Atticista'' (1895).
1. "Φρύνιχος," ''Suda'', Adler number: phi,764
2. I. Bekker, editor. ''Anecdota graeca'' (1814)
★ I. Avotins "The sophist Aristocles and the grammarian Phrynichus" PP 33 (1978) 181-91
★ J. de Borries ''Phrynichi Sophistae Praeparatio Sophistica'' (Leipzig 1911)
★ E. Fischer ''Die Ekloge des Phrynichos'' (SGLG 1, Berlin 1974)
'Phrynichus Arabius' or 'Phrynichus of Bithynia' (Greek: '') was a Greek grammarian who flourished in second century Bithynia, writing works on Attic usage. Also Latinized Phrynichos or Phrynikhos.
The ''Suda'' states:
: [1]
:"Phrynichus of Bithynia, sophist. He wrote
:
★ ''Atticist'', or ''On Attic Words'' () in two books;
:
★ ''Collection of Usages'' ()
:
★ ''Sophistic Preparations'' ( (47 books, but some say 74)"
As models of Attic style Phrynichus assigns the highest place to Plato, Demosthenes, and Aeschines the Socratic. The work was learned, but prolix and garrulous. A fragment contained in a Paris MS. was published by B. de Montfaucon, and by I. Bekker [2]. Another work of Phrynichus, not mentioned by Photius, but perhaps identical with the Atticist mentioned by Suidas, the ''Selection () of Attic Words and Phrases'', is extant. It is dedicated to Cornelianus, a man of literary tastes, and one of the imperial secretaries, who had invited the author to undertake the work; it is a collection of current words and forms which deviated from the Old Attic standard, the true Attic equivalents being given side by side. The work is thus a lexicon antibarbarum, and is interesting as illustrating the changes through which the Greek language had passed between the 4th century B.C. and the 2nd century A.D.
Editions of the ''Eklogê'', with valuable notes, have been published by C. A. Lobeck (1820) and W. G. Rutherford (1881); Lobeck devotes his attention chiefly to the later, Rutherford to the earlier usages noticed by Phrynichus. See also J. Brenous, ''De Phrynicho Atticista'' (1895).
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References
1. "Φρύνιχος," ''Suda'', Adler number: phi,764
2. I. Bekker, editor. ''Anecdota graeca'' (1814)
★ I. Avotins "The sophist Aristocles and the grammarian Phrynichus" PP 33 (1978) 181-91
★ J. de Borries ''Phrynichi Sophistae Praeparatio Sophistica'' (Leipzig 1911)
★ E. Fischer ''Die Ekloge des Phrynichos'' (SGLG 1, Berlin 1974)
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