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Oppianos
Adler number: omicron,452
Translated headword: Oppian, Oppianos, Oppianus
Vetting Status: high
Translation: of
Cilicia, from the city of Corycus.[1] Grammarian and epic poet. He lived under the emperor Marcus Antoninus.[2] [He wrote]
Halieutica ["Fishing"] (in 5 books);
Cynegetica ["Hunting"] (in 4 books);[3]
Ixeutica ["Bird-catching"] (2 [books]).[4] When his poems were read in the presence of the emperor, he gave him a golden stater (i.e. a coin) for each line of verse, so that he received 20,000 coins in all.
Oppianos, Kilix, apo Kôrukou poleôs, grammatikos kai epopoios, gegonôs epi Markou Antôninou basileôs. Halieutika en bibliois e#, Kunêgetika en bibliois d#, Ixeutika biblia b#. anagnôsthentôn de tôn poiêmatôn autou epi tou autokratoros, edôrêsato autôi pros hena stichon en metrôi statêra chrusoun, êgoun nomisma: hôs labein auton epi pasi nomismatôn muriadas duo.
Notes:
C2 AD. RE Oppianos(2); OCD4
Oppian.
[1] Barrington Atlas map 66 grid E4; present-day Kizkalesi (Gorgos). See further, n.3.
[2]
mu 214.
[3] The fact that the author of the
Cynegetica announces himself as a Syrian (from Apamea) is one of several reasons for doubting its attribution to
Oppian.
[4] 4 books in ms.S (Vaticanus 1296). This work has not survived.
Translated by: Malcolm Heath on 4 September 2003@14:36:37.
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