INTRODUCTION 



I. The Life of Trvphiodorus 



VnH the life of Trvphiodorus we have a notice in Suidag 



>. '■. Tpv(f>i65wf>oi '"'of Egypt, grammjirian and epic poet; 



te Marathonlaca , Capture of I/ios ('IXioi' aXuKns), The 



■>i of Eippodameia {to. Kad' 'IinroSdfj.eLav), an Myssey 

 'qrammatoft — this being a poem on the labours {kolimtol) 



' 'dysseus and myths concerning him and other things." 



A second entry in Suidas under the name of Tryphio- 

 dorus merely says that he "wrote various things in epic 

 verse ; a paraphrase of the similes {irapa^oXaC) of Homer ; 

 and very many other things." 



As to the nature of the lipogrammatic Odyssey we 



e two notes : 



1) Suidas .?.r. X^crrajp of Laranda in Lycia, epic poet ; 

 . 'IXidSa ypd\(/as XeiiroypafifiaTOv tjtm dffToixf^(>-''''ov ; in 

 lar fashion Trvphiodorus wrote an Odyssey; for in 

 First Book (a) the letter a is not found ; and so in 



li rhapsody its (denoting) letter is wanting." 



2) Eustathius, Hom. Od. prooem. 1379, in referring to 

 fr ak variations on Homer mentions that one Timolaos 



f Larissa or Macedon or both," wrote a Troica, which 

 (imposed by inserting a line of his own alternately 



ii a line of Homer's I/iad {raptvi^aXe ry 'IXidSt ffrixov 



ffTtxov), and he goes on say : " it is said that 



jihiodorus wrote an 'OSwrcrcia \e(T07pd/x/uiros^ from 



ill he Ijanished sigma." 



similarly we are told by Suidas *.t». 'ISoros 'P65tos thai 

 I lios xapinSoKCov arixov (rrixv dSiwXatre ■rip' xoir}ff ip 'O/xiJpou, 



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