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Headword:
Philôn
Adler number: phi,447
Translated headword: Philo, Philon
Vetting Status: high
Translation: Of Byblos.[1] Grammarian. He lived in the time of those near Nero, and survived a long while - at any rate, he says that
Severus, surnamed Herennius,[2] was consul when he was 78 years old, in the 220th Olympiad.[3] He wrote
On the Purchase and Selection of Books (12 books);
On Cities and the Famous People Each of them Produced (30 books);
On the Reign of Hadrian (under whom
Philo lived); etc.
Philo was consul, surnamed Herennius, as he himself says.[4]
Philôn, Bublios, grammatikos. houtos gegonen epi tôn chronôn tôn engus Nerônos kai pareteinen eis makron: hupaton goun Sebêron, ton Erennion chrêmatisanta, autos einai phêsin, hotan êgen ê# kai o# etos, olumpiadi de k# kai diakosiostêi. gegraptai de autôi Peri ktêseôs kai eklogês bibliôn biblia ib#, Peri poleôn kai hous hekastê autôn endoxous ênenke biblia l#, Peri tês basileias Adrianou, eph' hou kai ên ho Philôn: kai alla. hoti hupatos gegonen ho Philôn, Erennios chrêmatisas, hôs autos phêsi.
Notes:
AD c.70-c.160. See generally RE Herennios(2); OCD4 Philon(5); FGrH 790.
[1] In Phoenicia; present-day Jubayl in
Lebanon.
[2] RE Herennius(45).
[3] AD 101-104.
[4] Incompetently copied to
epsilon 2928.
Translated by: Malcolm Heath on 23 March 1999@16:29:48.
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