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Cleitarchus of Aegina

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Cleitarchus (Ancient Greek: Κλείταρχος ἐξ Αἰγίνης), originally from Aegina, was a grammarian and lexicographer active in either the 1st or 2nd century BC. He wrote a seven-book treatise titled "Languages" or "On Languages", in which he presented the peculiarities of various Greek dialects and interpreted a multitude of idiomatic words, as well as words derived from specialized professional glossaries.[1]

Cleitarchus and his work are mentioned by Athenaeus,[2] Proclus,[3] Harpocration,[4] and the Byzantine Etymologicum Magnum[5] among others.

All the surviving fragments were collected and published in 1842 in Berlin.[6]

References

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  1. ^ Drandakis, 1926. p.334
  2. ^ Ath. 7.21
  3. ^ Hofinger, 1985
  4. ^ Harpocration's Lexicon, Volume I, page 68
  5. ^ Mega Etymologicon, entry on Bruchos
  6. ^ Drandakis, 1926. p.334

Bibliography

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  • Athenaeus. Deipnosophists. Vol. Book VII. Retrieved 2024-01-01.
  • Harpocration's Lexicon (in Greek). Vol. I. 1824. Epileptas, Lysias in the case against Nicias, if genuine. Epibleptas is, as Timachidas says, a beam; but according to Cleitarchus the glossographer, it is a kind of beam.
  • "Entry on Bruchos". Mega Etymologicon (in Greek). Lipsiae Apud J.A.G. Weigel. 1816. Cleitarchus says that according to the Ambraciots, the grasshopper is called mastax.
  • Pavlos Drandakis, ed. (1926–1934). Great Greek Encyclopedia (Μεγάλη Ελληνική Εγκυκλοπαίδεια) (in Greek).