Valerius Harpocration (Greek: Οὐαλέριος or Βαλέριος Ἁρποκρατίων, gen. Ἁρποκρατίωνος) was a Greek grammarian of Alexandria, probably working in the 2nd century AD. He is possibly the Harpocration mentioned by Julius Capitolinus (Life of Verus, 2) as the Greek tutor of Lucius Verus (2nd century AD); some authorities place him much later, on the ground that he borrowed from Athenaeus.[1]
Harpocration's Lexicon of the Ten Orators (Περὶ τῶν Λέξεων τῶν Δέκα Ῥητόρων, or briefly Λεξικὸν τῶν Δέκα Ῥητόρων), which has come down to us in an incomplete form, contains, in more or less alphabetical order, notes on well-known events and persons mentioned by the orators, and explanations of legal and commercial expressions. As nearly all the lexicons to the Greek orators have been lost, Harpocration's work is especially valuable. Amongst his authorities were the writers of Atthides (histories of Attica), the grammarian Didymus Chalcenterus, Dionysius of Halicarnassus, and the lexicographer Dionysius, son of Tryphon. The book also contains contributions to the history of Attic oratory and Greek literature generally.[1]
The Collection of Florid Expressions, a sort of anthology or chrestomathy attributed to him by the Suda, is lost, but elements of it survive in later lexica. A series of articles in the margin of a Cambridge manuscript of the Lexicon forms the basis of the Lexicon rhetoricum Cantabrigiense by Peter Paul Dobree.[1]
Valerius Harpocration (Greek: Οὐαλέριος or Βαλέριος Ἁρποκρατίων, gen. Ἁρποκρατίωνος) was a Greek grammarian of Alexandria, probably working in the 2nd...
Harpocration of Argos (Ancient Greek: Ἁρποκρατίων) was an Ancient Greek Middle Platonist philosopher who lived in the second half of the 2nd century CE...
supposed to have introduced to Athens was named by Harpocration as Isodaites; though Harpocration describes him as being "foreign" and "new", the name...
inspectors who were sometimes sent by the Athenians to subject states. Harpocration compares them to the Lacedaemonian harmosts, and says that they were...
according to the philology of its period, using such earlier authorities as Harpocration and Helladios. It is a rich source of ancient and Byzantine history and...
succinctly pointed out. John Hudson (1711) J. Pierson (1759) A. Koch (1830) Harpocration et Moeris I. Bekker (ed.), 1833 One or more of the preceding sentences incorporates...
and there exchanged them for other unknown objects. The lexicon of Harpocration states (s.v. Arrêphorein) that there were four Arrephoroi and that two...
white goats. Pandemos occurs also as a surname of Eros. According to Harpocration, who quotes Apollodorus, Aphrodite Pandemos has very old origins, "the...
name in addition to their personal name. In the case of Cyaxares II, Harpocration and Berossus were cited as evidence showing that the throne name of Cyaxares...
[Adrasteia's association with Nemesis] for an explanation of the statement in Harpocration that Demetrius of Scepsis identified Adrasteia with Artemis, and for...
a historical writer of ancient Greece. He is mentioned by the writer Harpocration as the author of a work on the islands of Euboea (Περὶ Εὐβοίας). Some...
Ἀριστόδημος) of Elis was an ancient Greek writer who was referred to by Harpocration as an authority respecting the number of the Hellanodikai. He is probably...
glossaries. Cleitarchus and his work are mentioned by Athenaeus, Proclus, Harpocration, and the Byzantine Etymologicum Magnum among others. All the surviving...
(2016) «The Remembrance of Daniel's Darius the Mede in Berossus and Harpocration». Bibliotheca Sacra 173, pp. 315-23 Shea 1982, p. 231-232. Colless, Brian...
Midias", 161. Harpocration. ""theorika"". Lexicon of the Ten Orators. Harpocration. ""epi korres"". Lexicon of the Ten Orators. Harpocration, s.v. "koironidai";...
"the hundred footer") in their lost treatise on Athenian architecture. Harpocration wrote that some people used to call the Parthenon the "Hekatompedos"...
and the Two Goddesses [Demeter and Persephone]." [N.B. Derived from Harpocration s.v. kittophoros, the ivy-bearer.] Hau, Lisa Irene (2016-07-01), "Diodorus...
significatu, with entries in alphabetic order. In the 3rd century CE, Harpocration wrote a Homeric lexicon alphabetized by all letters. In the 10th century...
of three Christian bishops of Bubastis of the 4th and 5th centuries: Harpocration, one of the bishops ordained by Melitius of Lycopolis listed in 325 Hermon...
still possess a few fragments, but the last two are completely lost. Harpocration, Lexicon of the Ten Orators, s. v. ἀσελφίρειν Athenaeus, Deipnosophistae...
antiquity, and was commented on by a number of ancient philosophers, such as Harpocration of Argos, Porphyry, Iamblichus, Paterius, Plutarch of Athens, Syrianus...
Halicarnassus, in the massive medieval Greek encyclopaedia called the Suda. Harpocration also writes that it is attributed to Homer. Basil of Caesarea writes...
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