, 1773, 4to, 2 vols.; and by Tollius, Leiden, 1788, 8vo;
ed. Bekker, Berlin, 1833, 8vo. Erotian or Herodian, physician to Nero,
wrote a lexicon on Hippocrates, arranged in alphabetical order,
probably by some copyist, whom Klein calls "homo sciolus." It was
first published in Greek in H. Stephani _Dictionarium Medicum_, Paris,
1564, 8vo; ed. Klein, Lipsiae, 1865, 8vo, with additional fragments.
Timaeus the sophist, who, according to Ruhnken, lived in the 3rd
century, wrote a very short lexicon to Plato, which, though much
interpolated, is of great value, 1st ed. Ruhnken, Leiden, 1754; ed.
locupletior, Lugd. Bat. 1789, 8vo. Aelius Moeris, called the Atticist,
lived about 190 A.D., and wrote an Attic lexicon, 1st ed. Hudson,
Oxf. 1712, Bekker, 1833. Julius Pollux ([Greek: Ioulios Polydeukes])
of Naucratis, in Egypt, died, aged fifty-eight, in the reign of
Commodus (180-192), who made him professor of rhetoric at Athens. He
wrote, besides other lost works, an Onomasticon in ten books, being a
classed vocabulary, intended to supply all the words required by each
subject with the usage of the best authors. It is of the greatest
value for the knowledge both of language and of antiquities. First
printed by Aldus, Venice, 1500, fol.; often afterwards; ed. Lederlinus
and Hemsterhuis, Amst. 1706, 2 vols.; Dindorf, 1824, 5 vols., Bethe
(1900 f.). Harpocration of Alexandria, probably of the 2nd century,
wrote a lexicon on the ten Attic orators, first printed by Aldus, Ven.
1503, fol.; ed. Dindorf, Oxford, 1853, 8vo, 2 vols. from 14 MSS.
Orion, a grammarian of Thebes, in Egypt, who lived between 390 and
460, wrote an etymological dictionary, printed by Sturz, Leipzig,
1820, 4to. Helladius a priest of Jupiter at Alexandria, when the
heathen temples there were destroyed by Theophilus in 389 or 391
escaped to Constantinople, where he was living in 408. He wrote an
alphabetical lexicon, now lost, chiefly of prose, called by Photius
the largest ([Greek: polystichotaton]) which he knew. Ammonius,
professor of grammar at Alexandria, and priest of the Egyptian ape,
fled to Constantinople with Helladius, and wrote a dictionary of words
similar in sound but different in meaning, which has been often
printed in Greek lexicons, as Aldus, 1497, Stephanus, and separately
by Valckenaer, Lugd. Bat. 1739, 4to, 2 vols., and by others. Zenodotus
wrote on the cries of animals, printed