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Gerstringer, Hans (1961). "Review of: S. G. Mercati, Intorno al titolo dei lessici di Suida-Suda e di Papia, Atti della
Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei, Memorie, Classe di scienze morali, storiche e filologiche VIII, 10 (1960) 3–50".
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contains numerous biographical notices on political, ecclesiastical, and literary figures of the
Byzantine Empire to the tenth century, those biographical entries being condensations from the works of
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237:, "collected and systemized knowledge"); Giuseppe Scarpat's link to an unidentified Judas, the supposed author of the Lexicon; and Hans Gerstinger's explaination which points at Russian
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serves as an invaluable repository of literary history, and this preservation of the "literary history" is more vital than the lexicographical compilation itself, by some estimation.
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Ancient Greek
Scholarship: a guide to finding, reading, and understanding scholia, commentaries, lexica, and grammatical treatises, from their beginnings to the Byzantine period.
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The lexicon is arranged alphabetically with some slight deviations from common vowel order and place in the Greek alphabet (including at each case the homophonous
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is somewhere between a grammatical dictionary and an encyclopedia in the modern sense. It explains the source, derivation, and meaning of words according to the
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of the world. At any rate, the work must have appeared by the 12th century, since it is frequently quoted from and alluded to by
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Scarpat, Giuseppe (1960–1961). "Una nuova ipotesi sull'autore del lessico detto di Suida".
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Mercati, Silvio
Giuseppe (1960). "Intorno al titolo dei lessici di Suida-Suda e di Papia".
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Giuseppe (1957). "Intorno al titolo dei lessici di Suida-Suda e di Papia".
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Dain, Alphonse (1937). "Suda dans les traités militaires".
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