110 The Rev. Dr. Wall on the Nature, Age, and Origin of the 



The account given by Hesychius is preserved in his dedicatory Epistle to his 

 friend Eulogius, the beginning of which more particularly bears upon this sub- 

 ject, and may be translated as follows : " Hesychius, a grammarian of Alexandria, 

 to his companion Eulogius, greeting. — Many others also collected in the order 

 of the letters the ' words' of the Ancients, O most beloved Eulogius : some, 

 however, those only of Homer, as Apion, and ApoUonius, son of Archibius ; 

 some, those separately of the Comic, or those of the Tragic authors, as Theon and 

 Didymus, and other such compilers ; and no one, all the words of the different 

 writers together. But after these arose a certain Diogenianus, a man of industry 

 and taste, who, having brought together the forementioned books and all the 

 words dispersed through all, united into one compilation in alphabetic order all 

 of them ; I mean, the Homeric, and the Comic, and the Tragic terms, and those 

 which occur in the Lyric poets and in the Orators ; nor these only, but also such 

 as are to be found in the works of the Physicians and of the Historians. In short, 

 no word, as far as we are aware of, did he omit, whether of the Ancients, or of 

 the writers of his own time."* From the manner in which Hesychius here dis- 



grammarians specified by him in his dedication to Eulogius ; — concludes with the following obser- 

 vation : " Si quis tamen seculo quarto exeunte, vel pauUo post, hoc Lexicon compositum putet, 

 aliis sensim interpolatis ; non videtur adeo absurdum sentire." — Preef. p. v. 



* HSYXIOS rPAMMATIKOS AAESANAPEYS, 



EYAOrm. Ti2. ETAIPQi, XAIPEIN, 

 rioXXoi fiiv KOI aXXoj, Tb)v TToXaitov TUQ Kara OTOixttov avvTsOi'iKaai Xl^uc, Si wavTwv i/ioi 

 7rpo(T(j)iXt<jTaTt EiXoytc* aXX' ol fiiv, ra^ 'OfiripiKug fiovag, wg ^Aniwv, koI 'ATroXXiuvtoc o 

 Tov 'Apx'/^'Of* oi St, rac KwjutKOC iStg, Koi Tag TpayiKag, wg Glwv, koI AtSujuoc, km trtpot 

 roiovTOf bfiov 81 iraaag rovrwv, ovBe tl?. Aioytviavog Si rig fXira rovrovg ■ytyovwc, avr/p 

 (TTrovcdlog Koi (piXoKuXoQ, rd re Trpoitpr}fiiva jStjSXta, koI naaag rag (nropaSriv Trapa ttckti 

 Kiifiivag Xi^iig avvajaywv, ofiov iraaag Kalf iKUfrrov cfToixuov avvriOsiKe' Xs-yw Sri rag ti 

 OfiripiKag, Koi Kw/xocac, koI TpayiKag, Tag re wapa roiig AvpiKolg, icai Trapa rote PriTopm 

 Ktifxivag' ov fj.rjv aXXa Koi rag Trapa ToXg 'larpoic, rag re Trapa rote ^l<7Toptoypa(poig' (tvX- 

 Xrjficrfv 8e bfiov ovStpiav Xi^iv, wots fifxag dSivai, TrapiXnre, ovre twv iraXaiwv, ovri twv 

 iTT tKtivov jijivripivwv. According to the received mode of pointing the commencement of this 

 extract, iraXaiwv is immediately connected with the preceding instead of the following words ; by 

 which means Hesychius is made to contradict himself. For if he said, " many others of the ancients 

 also," that is, many others of the ancients as well as Diogenianus, he must have ranked this gram- 

 marian among the ancients ; whereas he expressly distinguishes him from them at the close of the 



