in Valckenaer's _Ammonius_;
with this may be compared the work of Vincentio Caralucci, _Lexicon
vocum quae a brutis animalibus emittuntur_, Perusia, 1779, 12mo.
Hesychius of Alexandria wrote a lexicon, important for the knowledge
of the language and literature, containing many dialectic and local
expressions and quotations from other authors, 1st ed. Aldus, Ven.
1514, fol.; the best is Alberti and Ruhnken, Lugd. Bat. 1746-1766,
fol. 2 vols.; collated with the MS. in St Mark's library, Venice, the
only MS. existing, by Niels Iversen Schow, Leipzig, 1792, 8vo; ed.
Schmidt, Jena, 1867, 8vo. The foundation of this lexicon is supposed
to have been that of Pamphilus, an Alexandrian grammarian, quoted by
Athenaeus, which, according to Suidas, was in 95 books from [Epsilon]
to [Omega]; [Alpha] to [Delta] had been compiled by Zopirion. Photius,
consecrated patriarch of Constantinople, 25th December 857, living in
886, left a lexicon, partly extant, and printed with Zonaras, Lips.
1808, 4to, 3 vols., being vol. iii.; ed. Naber, Leidae, 1864-1865,
8vo, 2 vols. The most celebrated of the Greek glossaries is that of
Suidas, of whom nothing is known. He probably lived in the 10th
century. His lexicon is an alphabetical dictionary of words including
the names of persons and places--a compilation of extracts from Greek
writers, grammarians, scholiasts and lexicographers, very carelessly
and unequally executed. It was first printed by Demetrius
Chalcondylas, Milan, 1499, fol.; the best edition, Bernhardy, Halle,
1853, 4to, 2 vols. John Zonaras, a celebrated Byzantine historian and
theologian, who lived in the 12th century, compiled a lexicon, first
printed by Tittmann, Lips. 1808. 4to, 2 vols. An anonymous Greek
glossary, entitled [Greek: Etymologikon mega], _Etymologicum magnum_,
has been frequently printed. The first edition is by Musurus, Venitia,
1499, fol.; the best by Gaisford, Oxonii, 1848, fol. It contains many
grammatical remarks by famous authorities, many passages of authors,
and mythological and historical notices. The MSS. vary so much that
they look like the works of different authors. To Eudocia Augusta of
Makrembolis, wife of the emperors Constantine XI. and Romanus IV.
(1059 to 1071), was ascribed a dictionary of history and mythology,
[Greek: Ionia] (bed of violets), first printed by D'Ansse de
Villoison, _Anecdota Graeca_, Venetiis, 1781, 4to, vol. i.