Authority Cited: Hesychius
Author name and dates: Hesychius of Alexandria (fl. end of 5th century CE)
BKG Bio-tweet: Greek grammarian; compiled rich lexicon of unusual Greek words, survived in corrupt 15th-century manuscript; pub. 1514
Categories (list of works cited – preliminary) [BKG Note: two Hesychius citations in 1755 Dict. vol. 1 (one each in the Preface and word list). No Hesychius cites were identified as added in the 1773 Dict. Lot 97 in the Sale Catalogue of Samuel Johnson's Library, a Facsimilie Edition, Fleeman ed., is Hesychii dictionarium Ven. 1514. See image of pages from a 1514 edition below.]
Author name and dates: Hesychius of Alexandria (fl. end of 5th century CE)
BKG Bio-tweet: Greek grammarian; compiled rich lexicon of unusual Greek words, survived in corrupt 15th-century manuscript; pub. 1514
Categories (list of works cited – preliminary) [BKG Note: two Hesychius citations in 1755 Dict. vol. 1 (one each in the Preface and word list). No Hesychius cites were identified as added in the 1773 Dict. Lot 97 in the Sale Catalogue of Samuel Johnson's Library, a Facsimilie Edition, Fleeman ed., is Hesychii dictionarium Ven. 1514. See image of pages from a 1514 edition below.]
- Hesychiu Lexikon = Hesychii Dictionarivm locvpletiss.: ea fide ac diligentia excusum, ut hoc uno, ad veterum autorum fere omnium, ac poetarum in primis lectionem, iusti commentarii vice, uti qui vis possit, & plane nihil sit, quod ad rectam interpretationem desyderari hic queat, 1514, Venedig: Aldus; Dict. Preface footnote at signature B: banish; Word list: bashful [BKG Note: both citations occur in a discussion of an etymology by Junius]
