Entry Version: This is the English version of this article translated by Patrick Hogan. The original Italian version was written by Antonella Ippolito and first published on 20/05/2008. Here is the Italian version of this entry. Grammarian: Name: Orus | Ὦρος Identity: BNP Place of Origin: Alexandria Date: 5th c. CE ↓ To Source List Biography: The Suda1 , which drew on Hesychius of Miletus’2 Onomasticon3, informs us that Orus, a native of Alexandria, taught at Constantinople; we do not know whether his teaching was connected with an imperial post (cf. K. Alpers, Das attizistische Lexikon…

Entry Version: This is the English version of this article translated by Patrick Hogan. The original Italian version was written by Flavia Cecchi and first published on 02/07/2016. Here is the Italian version of this entry. Grammarian: Name: Theodotus | Θεόδοτος Place of Origin: ? Date: ? ↓ To Source List Biography: Theodotus is a grammarian1 of unknown date, and his name is attested, in different forms, in the tradition of the Etymologica2 and the Lexicon3 of pseudo-Zonaras4 regarding the etymology of the term ὀρίγανον; he derives this word from ῥιγῶ (“to be cold”) by antiphrasis (o…