Table Of ContentHesychii Alexandrini Lexicon
Volumen I: A–(cid:2)
Sammlung griechischer
und lateinischer Grammatiker
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Hesychii
Alexandrini
Lexicon
Volumen I
A–(cid:2)
recensuit et emendavit
Kurt Latte
editionem alteram curavit
Ian C. Cunningham
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Contents
Preface . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . VII
Prolegomena . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . IX
Sources and Parallels . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . XIV
Names and Publications . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . XXI
Conspectus siglorum . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . XXXVIII
Hesychii Alexandrini Lexicon: A–(cid:2) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3
Preface VII
Preface
The young Kurt Latte in 1914 was (one might almost say) conscripted by
Wilamowitz into undertaking a new edition of Hesychius1. However ex-
ternal events (two World Wars and the Nazi rule in Germany) conspired
to delay completion of the project. Only in 1953 was the first volume,
covering A to (cid:2), published by Munksgaard in Copenhagen, followed by
volume 2 (E to O) in 1966, immediately after Latte’s death, both under
the auspices of the Danish Commission for the Corpus Lexicographo-
rum Graecorum. It was not until 1987 that the Commission found a suc-
cessor to Latte in Peter Allan Hansen, who edited volume 3 (P to (cid:3)),
published in 2005 in the Sammlung griechischer und lateinischer Gram-
matiker. Hansen also began volume 4 (T to (cid:4)), but ill-health forced him
to stop, and it was completed by the present writer and published in
20092.
Latte’s volumes had been well received by their reviewers3, though not
without some reservations4. In 2009 they had long been out of print, and
it was decided that, rather than reprints with corrigenda, full revisions
were required. The present work is the first fruit of that.
A full collation of the manuscript was made and all its errors recorded
(Latte having been intentionally selective). More and more complete in-
formation on the authors of corrections was added, and contributions by
later scholars were considered (but not all cited). The testimonia were
checked and information from more recent works included. The in-
formation on source passages was checked and supplemented. The
Prolegomena have been rewritten and substantially reduced. The Man-
tissa Adnotationis is omitted, though some of the content has been in-
corporated into the Apparatus.
As with volume 4, the draft edition was read by Prof. Dr R. Kassel, to
its great benefit, especially in the area of secondary literature. N.C. Co-
nomis, S. Valente and G. Xenis, and the International Institute of Social
1 He himself wrote (Hesychius1, V) ‘Ad Hesychium edendum non sponte accessi’).
2 For a full account of these events see K. Alpers, ‘Zur Geschichte der neuen Hesychausgabe’,
Abhandlungen der Braunschweigischen Wissenschaftlichen Gesellschaft 57, 2007, 109–35.
Hansen died in 2012; for an obituary by A. Bülow-Jacobsen and myself, and a bibliography by
F.S. Pedersen see Eikasmos24, 2013, 407–11.
3 E.g. ‘confirms expectations’ D. Mervyn Jones, Cl. Rev. 5, 1955, 164; ‘a magnificent achieve-
ment’ J. L. Heller, Am. Jnl. Phil. 76, 1955, 217.
4 See especially H. Erbse, Byz. Ztschr. 41, 1955, 130–8; W. Bühler, Gnom. 42, 1970, 339–54. Cf.
also Alpers in vol. 3, pp. xv-xxiii.
VIII Preface
History (Amsterdam) provided me with copies of various publications;
the thanks to the other individuals and institutions expressed in the pref-
ace to volume 4 are to be repeated here.
ICC
Prolegomena IX
Prolegomena
I The Author.
The only information we have on Hesychius comes from the introduc-
tory epistle (printed below), 2H(cid:5)(cid:6)(cid:7)(cid:8)(cid:9)« (cid:10)(cid:11)(cid:12)(cid:13)(cid:13)(cid:12)(cid:14)(cid:8)(cid:15)μ« #A(cid:16)(cid:17)(cid:18)(cid:12)(cid:19)(cid:20)(cid:11)(cid:17)(cid:21)«. The
name suggests fairly conclusively that he was a Christian, and therefore
working at earliest in the 4th century; that he was from Alexandria indi-
cates the latest date of c. 600. His friend and dedicatee Eulogius, also pre-
sumably a Christian, is not otherwise known.
II The Lexicon.
The epistle also gives Hesychius’ principal source as the P(cid:17)(cid:11)(cid:8)(cid:17)(cid:11)-
(cid:10)(cid:9)(cid:22)(cid:23)(cid:19)(cid:24)(cid:14)(cid:17)« of Diogenian, which (he says) incorporated earlier vocabu-
laries by Ap(p)ion and Apollonius (Homer)5, Theon and Didymus (tra-
gedy), and others of comic and lyric poets, orators, medical writers and
historians, of all periods, arranged alphabetically; and in addition he in-
cluded proverbs. To enhance the usefulness of the lexicon, Hesychius
says he added the purpose ((cid:25)(cid:22)(cid:9)(cid:26)(cid:23)(cid:5)(cid:17)(cid:8)«) of the proverbs, and the names of
the authors and works excerpted, not overlooking polysemantic and ob-
scure words. He copied all these with his own hand, using the ortho-
graphy of Herodian, omitting none.
One notable feature not mentioned in the epistle is the inclusion of
words from the Greek dialects, including Macedonian6, and from other
languages.
When this description is compared with the lexicon as preserved, it is
clear that much has been omitted and much added in the course of the
centuries between compilation and our source.
Epitomisation has affected the content of many entries, and even more
the citation of authors and works, who are named only sporadically. On
the other hand a very large number of additions to entries and of entirely
new entries are to be found (see section III below).
The work of Diogenian, an epitome of the lexicon of Pamphilus (1st
cent.) from the Hadrianic period, did not survive antiquity. Apart from
5 Despite this clear statement, Erbse 1955, 132 has shown that Diogen. knew Apion only through
Ap. Soph.
6 Listed by Degani 1984.
X Prolegomena
Hesychius he is named in the earlier part of the Etymologicum Magnum
and occasionally in various scholia and grammatical works as the source
of words and meanings7; much more frequently his influence in these
and in Photius’ lexicon, although he is not named, is shown by coinci-
dence with Hesychius.
Two anonymous word-lists, many of whose entries recur in Hesy-
chius, are preserved on papyri of the third century8. Whether they are di-
rectly related or simply use the same sources is indeterminable.
III Additions, recognisable groups.
(i) By far the most extensive is the Cyril-lexicon, attributed to the 5th-
century bishop of Alexandria but perhaps rather originally a vocabulary
of his works, later much expanded. That the presence of Cyril-glosses in
Hesychius is due to a large-scale incorporation was shown by Reitzen-
stein (1883); this took place before the 10th cent. (see section IV below).
Despite the efforts of Drachmann, Latte and Naoumides there is no sat-
isfactory edition or complete elucidation of the transmission; however
the ongoing work of H. Van Thiel promises hope for the future9. Hesy-
chius stands closest to the manuscripts A and especially S, but there are
also parallels with the families v and g (including(cid:3)) and the oldest manu-
script Br, indicating that the Cyril-text in Hesychius predates the surviv-
ing manuscripts. For more details see below, Sigla.
As well as St Cyril himself, glosses on various Biblical texts, Gregory
of Nazianzus, Homer (related to the D-scholia), Euripides, and other
poetical and prose authors appear. Some of these also reached Hesychius
from sources other than Cyril.
There are also glosses apparently from St Cyril which do not appear in
the presently known manuscripts of the lexicon.
(ii) Homeric glosses, apart from those from Diogenian (also Ap.
Soph.) and Cyril, are also frequent. Many are related to the D-scholia.
(iii) Proverbs from the collections Zenob. vulg., Diogen., Prov. Bodl.,
fuller than those derived from Diogenian.
(iv) Atticistic glosses are not easily distinguished from similar ones in
Diogenian; some however, intended to assist in determining usage rather
than establish meaning, belong here.
7 These named occurences are listed in Schmidt, Quaest. Hes. LXXXVI–XC.
8 Published by Worp 2006. The coincidences for this volume are: P. Genov. II52 i (3(cid:27) 413, 4(cid:27)
551, 5(cid:27) 552, 6(cid:27) 578, 7(cid:27) 611, 8(cid:27) 599/609, 10(cid:27) 685), ii (13(cid:27)813, 14(cid:27) 910, 15(cid:27) 847–851, 16(cid:27)
871, 17(cid:27) 845–844, 18(cid:27) 879); Sammelb. XII 10769 fr. 1 ii (33(cid:27) 818, 34(cid:27) 217, 35(cid:27) 146. 133a/148.
149. 150, 36(cid:27) 813, 37(cid:27) 891, 38(cid:27) 448, 39(cid:10) 91. 99, 40(cid:10) 917, 41(cid:10) 533, 42(cid:10) 757, 43(cid:10) 825 [826], 45
[(cid:10) 86], 47(cid:10) 431, 48 [(cid:10) 301], 51(cid:10) 845a, 52(cid:27) 128, 53(cid:20) 837 [835. 836], 54(cid:20) 260 [262. 257]
9 See his preface to U. Hagedorn’s edition of the Bremen MS.
