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Headword:
Didumos
Adler number: delta,872
Translated headword: Didymus, Didymos
Vetting Status: high
Translation: Son of
Didymus, a fishmonger. A grammarian of the school of
Aristarchus;[1] of Alexandria. He lived in the time of Antony and
Cicero, and until Augustus. He was called 'Bronze-guts' [Khalkenteros] because of his indefatigable industry with regard to books; for they say that he wrote more than 3500 books.[2]
Didumos, Didumou tarichopôlou, grammatikos Aristarcheios, Alexandreus, gegonôs epi Antôniou kai Kikerônos kai heôs Augoustou: Chalkenteros klêtheis dia tên peri ta biblia epimonên: phasi gar auton sungegraphenai huper ta trischilia pentakosia biblia.
Notes:
C1 BC. See generally RE Didymos(8); NP Didymos(1); OCD4
Didymus(1).
[1] [
alpha 3892]
Aristarchus.
[2] (Again at
chi 29.) Other sources put the figure even higher, at 4000. Another of his nicknames, Bibliolathas ("Book-forgetting"), arose because he occasionally contradicted something he himself had said in an earlier work.
P.M. Fraser, Ptolemaic Alexandria (Oxford 1972) 471-4
L. Pearson and S. Stephens, Didymi in Demosthenem commenta (Stuttgart 1983)
R. Pfeiffer, A History of Classical Scholarship (Oxford 1968) 274-9
M. Schmidt, Didymi Chalcenteri grammatici Alexandrini fragmenta quae supersunt omnia (Leipzig 1854)
Keywords: biography; chronology; ethics; food; geography; imagery; rhetoric; trade and manufacture; zoology
Translated by: Malcolm Heath on 28 June 2000@14:06:03.
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