OPPIAN 



i>i6s wv iKtiVov KOfXiSy vjyTTios €v Tw OpLaixfio) irapri^di], 

 fjLaKapnoTdTrjv dAovs ciA-wcrtv, €K (iapfidpov Koi NofJuiSo's 

 'EA-Aryvtov TOis TToXvixadecTTaTois ivapidfxios y^vecrdat, 

 (Tvyy paf^tvai) to Rome, where he remained till his 

 restoration by Octavian in 30 b.c. One of the most 

 erudite men of his time (Plut. Sert. 9 to-ropiKwraToi; 

 f^aa-iXfwv ; Athen. 83 b dvBpa iroXvixadkarTaTov ; Plin. 

 V. l6 studiorum claritate memorabilior etiam quam 

 regno), he wrote on Assyria, Arabia, and Africa — his 

 work on the latter supplying information on the 

 Elephant (Plin. viii. 7, 14, S5 ; Plut. Mor. 972 b ; 

 Ael. ix. 58), the Lion (Ael. vii. 23), the Crocotta 

 (Plin. viii. 107) etc., cf. M. Wellmann, Hermes 27 

 (1892) " luba eine Quelle d. Aelian " About the same 

 date Metrodorus of Byzantium and his son Leonidas 

 (Athen. 13 c, cf. M. Wellmann, Hermes 30 [1895] 

 "Leonidas von Byzanz u. Demostratos ") and Demo- 

 stratus wrote on Fishes (Ael. N.A. epilog.). Alex- 

 ander of Myndos (first half of 1st cent, a.d., cf. M. 

 Wellmann, Hermes 26 [1891], 51 [1916]) wrote Uipl 

 ^lauiv (Athen. 392 c, Bk. II. being on Birds, inpl 

 TTTi^vcou, Athen. 388 d etc.), based mainly on Aristo- 

 phanes' Epitome of the H.A. of Aristotle, as well as 

 a Q-qpiuKus and a Qavpacr'nDV a-vvaytiiyi] (Phot. Bibl. 

 p. 145 b Bekker Aeyei Sc Tre/Di re ^w'wv koI (jiVTMv Kal 

 )(^(apwv TLVOiv Kol TTOTafxQv Kal Kprjvwv Kal f^oravMV Kal 

 tQv ToiovTwv). He made use of Leonidas of Byzan- 

 tium and Juba, and was one of the sources of Aelian, 

 Dionysius De avibus, and Plut. De sollert. anitnalium. 

 Pamphilos of Alexandria (middle of 1st cent, a.d.) 

 was the author of a lexicon IXtpi yAwcro-wv r/roi Ae^cwv, 

 in ninety-five books. This lexicon, which was at 

 once a glossary and an encyclopaedia of general 

 information, was excerpted in the reign of Lladrian 



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