LIST OF ANCIENT AUTHORS
QUOTED OR REFERRED TO IN THE LEXICON.
N. B. In the preparation of this list, free use has been made of the lists in the Lexicons of Liddell and Scott and of Sophocles, also of Freund's Triennium Philologicum (1874) vols. i. and ii., of Smith's Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography, of Smith and Wace's Dictionary of Christian Biography, of Engelmann's Bibliotheca Scriptorum Classicorum (8th ed. 1880), and of other current works of reference. An asterisk (*) before a date denotes birth, an obelisk (†) death.
| b.c. | a.d. | |
| Achilles Tatius | 500? | |
| Acts of Paul and Thecla, of Pilate, of Thomas, of Peter and Paul, of Barnabas, etc., at the earliest from | 2d cent. on | |
| Aelian | c. 180 | |
| Aeschines | 345 | |
| Aeschylus | *525, †456 | |
| Aesop[1] | 570 | |
| Aetius | c. 500 | |
| Agatharchides | 117? | |
| Alcaeus Mytilenaeus | 610 | |
| Alciphron | 200 ? | |
| Alcman | 610 | |
| Alexander Aphrodisiensis | 200 | |
| Alexis | 350 | |
| Ambrose, Bp. of Milan | 374 | |
| Ammianus Marcellinus | † c. 400 | |
| Ammonius, the grammarian | 390 | |
| Anacreon[2] | 530 | |
| Anaxandrides | 350 | |
| Anaximander | 580 | |
| Andocides | 405 | |
| Antiphanes | 380 | |
| Antiphon | 412 | |
| Antoninus, M. Aurelius | †180 | |
| Apollodorus of Athens | 140 | |
| Apollonius Dyscolus | 140 | |
| Apollonius Rhodius | 200 | |
| Appian | 150 | |
| Appuleius | 160 | |
| Aquila (translator of the O. T.) | 2d cent. (under Hadrian.) | |
| Aratus | 270 | |
| Archilochus | 700 | |
| Archimedes, the mathematician | 250 | |
| Archytas | c. 400 | |
| Aretaeus | 80 ? | |
| Aristaenetus | 450 ? | |
| Aristeas[3] | 270 | |
| Aristides, P. Aelius | 160 | |
| Aristophanes | *444, †380 | |
| Aristophanes, the grammarian | 200 | |
| Aristotle | *384, †322 | |
| Arrian (pupil and friend of Epictetus) | *c. 100 | |
| Artemidorus Daldianus (oneirocritica) | 160 | |
| Athanasius | †373 | |
| Athenaeus, the grammarian . . . | 228 | |
| Athenagoras of Athens | 177 ? | |
| Augustine, Bp. of Hippo | †430 | |
| Ausonius, Decimus Magnus | †c. 390 | |
| Babrius (see Rutherford, Babrius, Intr. ch. i.) | (some say 50?) | c. 225 |
| Barnabas, Epistle written | c. 100 ? | |
| Baruch, Apocryphal Book of | c. 75 ? | |
| Basilica, the[4] | c. 900 | |
| Basil the Great, Bp. of Cæsarea | †379 | |
| Basil of Seleucia | 450 | |
| Bel and the Dragon | 2d cent. ? | |
| Bion | 200 | |
| Caesar, Gaius Julius | †March 15, 44 | |
| Callimachus | 260 | |
| Canons and Constitutions, Apostolic | 3d and 4th cent. | |
| Capitolinus, Julius (one of the "Hist. August, scriptores sex") | c. 310 | |
| Cebes | 399 | |
| Cedrenus | 1050 |
- ↑ But the current Fables are not his; on the History of Greek Fable, see Rutherford, Babrius, Introd. ch. ii.
- ↑ Only a few fragments of the odes ascribed to him are genuine.
- ↑ But his letter is spurious; see Hody, De Bibl. text. orig. l. i.; A. Kurz, Arist. ep. etc (Bern 1872).
- ↑ The law-book of the Byzantine Empire, founded upon the work of Justinian and consisting of sixty books. It was begun under the emperor Basil of Macedonia (†886), completed under his son Leo. and revised in 945 under Constantine Porphyrogenitus; (ed. Heimbach, 6 vols. 1833-70).
