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Hesychius of Miletus: Fragments

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This collection gathers the fragments of Hesychius of Miletus, called Illustrius, a historian of the sixth century AD who wrote under Justinian. His Roman and Universal History, running from early times to the death of Anastasius in 518, is lost apart from quotations and one extended section on the origins of Constantinople, included here. Most of the collection is a dictionary of famous writers, a later compilation based on the Suda and transmitted under his name.

Hesychius wrote in the age of Justinian, and his lost dictionary of learned writers, the Onomatologos, was a major source for the Suda's notices on Greek authors. His work therefore stands behind much of what we know about the lives of ancient writers, and his fragments show how the history of Rome and Constantinople was being written in the sixth century.

About this edition. The Greek text comes from the Eulogikon open corpus of public-domain editions (standard reference: Müller, FHG IV pp. 143–177, frr. 1–7). Every word has been analyzed with odyCy, a neural language model for Ancient Greek — click or tap any word for its dictionary form, part of speech, and complete morphology, together with the full entry from the Liddell–Scott–Jones Greek–English Lexicon (LSJ).

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Hesychius of Miletus · Book 1 · every word parsed
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Gloss. verborum juris in Ottonis Thesaur. jur. tom. III: Παλματίους ἐκούου ς , ὁ τοῦ Παλματίου ἵππος. Ὢν δὲ Παλμάτιος οὗτος ἱππεὺς παμπλούσιος διὰ τυραννίδα ἐδημεύθη, περὶ οὗ φησιν ὁ Ἰλλούστριος Ἡσύχιος ὁ φιλοσοφήσας (l. Φιλοσοφίας) τῆς Μιλησίας, ἐν τῷ πέμπτῳ χρονικῷ διαστήματι τῆς Ἱστορίας ταῦτα· «Κατὰ τοὺς χρόνους Οὐαλεριανοῦ ἐν Καισαρείᾳ τῆς Καππαδοκίας Παλμάτιός τις, οἰκίαν ὑπὲρ τὰ βασίλεια κεκτημένος, ἵππων τε ἀγέλαις καὶ τῷ ἄλλῳ πλούτῳ κομῶν, εἰς πολὺ μέρος τῶν μοναρχούντων ἐφικνούμενος, ἀσελγὴς δὲ, εἴ τις ἕτερος, ὡς καὶ ὑπατικοῦ τινὸς Ἰσοαίμου τοὔνομα γαμετὴν Αἰθερίαν καλουμένην ἁρπάσαι καὶ εἰς Σίδην ἐκκομίσαι· διότι προστατεύων ἐτύγχανε τῆς ἐναντίας τοῦ δήμου μοίρας.» Constantin.
Porphyr. De Them. II, 8: Καὶ νικήσας ὁ Καῖσαρ τὸν Ἀντώνιον καὶ τὴν Κλεοπάτραν ἔκτισε πόλιν, καλέσας αὐτὴν Νικόπολιν διὰ τὸ ἐκεῖσε ἡττηθῆναι τὸν Ἀντώνιον. Ἀπὸ δὲ τοῦ ἀκρωτηρίου τοῦ καλουμένου Ἀκτίου καὶ τὰς καλουμένας ἰνδικτιῶνας ἐκάλεσεν. Οὕτω γὰρ γράφει Ἡσύχιος ὁ Ἰλλούστριος· » Ἰνδικτιώ ν , τοῦτʼ ἔστιν Ἰνακτιώ ν , ἡ περὶ τὸ Ἄκτιον νίκη. Διὰ τοῦτο ἄρχεται μὲν ἰνδικτιὼν ἀπὸ πρώτης καὶ καταλήγει μέχρι τῆς ιεʹ, καὶ πάλιν ὑποστρέφει καὶ ἄρχεται ἀπὸ πρώτης, διὰ τὸ τὸν Ἀντώνιον συνάρχοντα γενέσθαι Αὐγούστῳ τῷ Καίσαρι μέχρι τοῦ ιεʹ χρόνου· μετὰ δὲ ταῦτα μόνος ἐκράτησεν Αὔγουστος.» Ἐῶ Καλάνδον Νόννον τε καὶ τὸν Εἰδὸν σὺν τούτῳ, ὧνπερ τὸ εὐεργέτημα ἡμέραις παρεγράφη.
Ἐν χρόνοις Ἀντωνίνου γὰρ Ῥωμαίων ἡττηθέντων καὶ συγκλεισθέντων ἐν αὐτῇ τῇ γεραιτέρᾳ Ῥώμῃ, κινδυνευόντων τε λιμῷ πάντων διαφθαρῆναι, οὗτοι τὸν δῆμον οἴκοθεν ἔτρεφον τὸν τῆς Ῥώμης, ἡμέρας ὀκτωκαίδεκα Κάλανδος κατὰ μῆνα, Νόννος ἡμέρας δὲ ὀκτὼ, τὰς τέσσαρας Εἰδὸς δέ. Ἡσύχιος Ἰλλούστριος, Πλούταρχός τε καὶ Δίων καὶ Διονύσιος ὁμοῦ γράφουσι ταῦτα πάντα. ΕΚ ΤΟΥ ϛʹ ΔΙΑΣΤΗΜΑΤΟΣ.
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Text: Perseus Digital Library, licensed CC BY-SA. Dictionary: Liddell, Scott & Jones (Perseus, CC BY-SA). Morphology: odyCy — machine parsing, corrected against the AGDT & PROIEL treebanks and Morpheus.
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