Lexiphanes

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• List of works by Lucian — A list of works by Lucian of Samosata (c. AD 125 – after AD 180), who wrote in Ancient Greek. The order of the works is that of the Oxford Classical Texts edition. The English titles are taken from Loeb (alternative translations are sometimes… …   Wikipedia

• Liste der Werke von Lukian von Samosata — Die folgende Liste zählt alphabetisch nach der grammatischen Ordnung der deutschen Titel die überlieferten Werke des Lukian von Samosata auf. Der deutsche Titel folgt soweit möglich der Übersetzung von Christoph Martin Wieland. Zu den für die… …   Deutsch Wikipedia

• lexiphanic — |leksə|fanik adjective Etymology: Lexiphanes (bombastic speaker in the dialogue Lexiphanes by Lucian, 2d century A.D. Greek satirist) + English ic archaic : using ostentatiously recondite words : bombastic, pretentious …   Useful english dictionary

• Loeb Classical Library — The Loeb Classical Library is a series of books, today published by the Harvard University Press, which presents important works of ancient Greek and Latin Literature in a way designed to make the text accessible to the broadest possible audience …   Wikipedia

• Julius Pollux — (Ιούλιος Πολυδεύκης, Ioulios Poludeukes) (2nd century AD) was a Greek [Encyclopaedia Britannica [http://www.britannica.com/eb/article 9060658/Julius Pollux Greek scholar and rhetorician from Naukratis, Egypt. ] ] or Egyptian [George Sarton (1936) …   Wikipedia

• Ancient Greek comedy — Detail, side A from a Silician red figured calyx krater (c. 350 BC–340 BC). Ancient Greek comedy was one of the final three principal dramatic forms in the theatre of classical Greece (the others being tragedy and the satyr play). Athenian comedy …   Wikipedia

• Cryptocephalini — An unidentified species of Cryptocephalus Scientific classification Kingdom …   Wikipedia

• Lucien de Samosate — Pour les articles homonymes, voir Lucien. Lucien de Samosate …   Wikipédia en Français

• jarreter — 1. jarreter [ ʒarte ] v. intr. <conjug. : 4> • 1694; de jarret ♦ Archit. Former un jarret, un coude. jarreter 2. jarreter [ ʒarte ] v. tr. <conjug. : 4> • 1576; contract. de jarreterer, de jarretière ♦ Rare Garnir de jarretières. Par… …   Encyclopédie Universelle

• THRIPS — inter quatuor vermium genera, quae lignum infestant, memoratut Plinio, l. 16. c. 41. Culicibus vero similes, thripas: ex Graeco θρίψ. A quo erosa ligna priscos Lacones pro sigillis habuisse, Hercule inventore, refert apud Hesychium Philostephanus …   Hofmann J. Lexicon universale