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This is the English version of this article translated by Patrick Hogan. The original Italian version was written by Giuseppe Ucciardello and first published on 31/03/2006.

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Philostratus of Tyre is cited by Photius¹ (Bibl. cod. 150, 99a-b) as the author of a lexicon on the orators, which is mentioned along with similar works by Julianus² and Valerius Diodorus³. Cohn (Griech. Lexikogr., 1913, p. 590) has proposed to identify h…