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Headword:
*nika/nwr
Adler number: nu,375
Translated headword: Nicanor, Nikanor
Vetting Status: high
Translation: Son of
Hermias; an Alexandrian, a grammarian; lived under Caesar Hadrian,[1] when
Hermippus of Berytus[2] also lived. [He wrote]
On Punctuation in Homer and the Difference It Makes to Meaning, two books
On Punctuation in General, one book as an epitome of these,
On Punctuation in Callimachus,
Comic Subjects,
On the Naval Station,[3]
On the Word 'onax',[4]
On Punctuation, and other things.
Because of this treatise he was mocked by some and called Stigmatias (he was not being mocked as a slave in this).[5]
*nika/nwr, o( *(ermei/ou, *)alecandreu/s, grammatiko/s, gegonw\s e)pi\ *)adrianou= tou= *kai/saros, o(/te kai\ *(/ermippos o( *bhru/tios. *peri\ stigmh=s th=s par' *(omh/rw| kai\ th=s e)c au)tw=n diafora=s e)n th=| dianoi/a|, *peri\ stigmh=s th=s kaqo/lou bibli/a #2#, *)epitomh\n tou/twn bibli/on a#, *peri\ stigmh=s th=s para\ *kallima/xw|, *kwmw|dou/mena, *peri\ nausta/qmou, *peri\ tou= w)=nac, *peri\ stigmh=s: kai\ a)/lla. e)f' h(=| pragmatei/a| skwpto/menos pro/s tinwn *stigmati/as e)kalei=to: ou) ga\r dh/pou w(s dou=los ou(/tws e)skw/pteto.
Notes:
RE Nikanor(27); OCD4 Nicanor(2); FGrH 628.
[1] Hadrian (
alpha 527) reigned AD 117-138.
[2] For
Hermippus, see
epsilon 3045.
[3] A study of the location of contingents in the Greek camp in the
Iliad;
Aristarchus (
alpha 3892) had written a monograph on this topic.
[4]
w)=nac is
w)= a)/nac "O lord" with crasis.
[5] Stigmatias means a slave branded as a punishment for running away and alludes to Nicanor's special interest in punctuation [
stigmê:
sigma 1105].
Keywords: biography; chronology; comedy; dialects, grammar, and etymology; epic; geography; historiography; military affairs; poetry
Translated by: Malcolm Heath on 20 June 2003@01:52:50.
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