TRYPHIODORUS 



atid s.v. Uiyp7]s that Pigres of Halicaniassus, brother of 

 the famous Artemisia, rg 'IXiddi irapeve^aXe Kara utixov 

 iXeyeTov, oihw ypd-^ai' Mijuv detSe, 6ed, UijXrjiddew 'AxtX^os, 

 Movaa, aii yap- wdarii Treipar' ^x^is (TO(f>ir]i. Cf. K. Lehl"S, 

 Kleine Schrijten, p. 2, who mentions that Joshua Barnes 

 published at London in 1679 a Greek poem entitled 

 Susias, containing tlie story of Esther in hexameters 

 ''presse ad Iliadis exemplar factis," thus : Mrjviv &ei8e, did, 

 ' A/J.a\i}x^o.Seo} 'A/xafrjos \ ov\op.^i>r]v, f) fxvpi' 'E^paion d\ye' ^dijKe 

 I Hfpa^wf S' lipdifjLovi Kf(pa\di 'MSi irpoia\j/€v. See Sandys, 

 H.C.S. ii. p. 357 f- for this and Bentley's verdict that 

 " Barnes had as much Greek, and understood it about as 

 well, as an Athenian blacksmith." 



The above is the sum of our meagre information about 

 Tryphiodorus. For the rest it is inferred from the fact 

 that Tryphiodorus imitates Nonnus (cj>c. a. p. 400?), and 

 is himself imitated by Colluthus, that he lived about the 

 middle of the 5th century. 



It has been inferred that he was a Christian on tlie 

 very insufficient ground that in v. 604 f. he uses the 

 phrase Kai oi) voiovra tokt^wv d/xirXaKiai dn^Tifov. But there 

 is nothing specifically Christian about this language. 



From tlie occurrence of the name of the Egj'ptiau 

 goddess Triphis or Thriphis only in a couple of inscrip- 

 tions (one of the time of Tiberius, the other of the time 

 of Trajan) from the district Athribis it has been argued 

 by Letronne that he belonged to that district and that 

 the correct spelling of his name is Triphiodorus. 



ir. The mss. 



1. The best ms. is F = Laurentianus xxxii. 16, 

 written in A.n. 1280, which once belonged to Franciscus 

 Philelfus who bought it in Constantinople on 4th January 

 A.D. 1423 from the wife of Johannes Chrysoloras. It 

 contains, among other things, Nonni Dionysiaca, Apol- 

 lonius Rhodius, Theocritus, Hesiod, Oppian, Moschus, 

 Nicauder, Tryphiodorus, Gregorius Nazianzenus. 



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