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HERMOPOLIS MAGNA (Ancient city) EGYPT
Andronicus (Andronikos), a Greek Poet and contemporary of the emperor Constantius,
about A. D. 360. Libanius (Epist. 75; comp. De Vita Sua) says, that the sweetness
of his poetry gained him the favour of all the towns (probably cf Egypt) as far
as the Ethiopians, but that the full development of his talents was checked by
the death of his mother and the misfortune of his native town (Hermopolis?). If
he is the same as the Andronicus mentioned by Photius (Cod. 279) as the author
of dramas and various other poems, he was a native of Hermopolis in Egypt, of
which town he was decurio. Themistius (Orat. xxix.), who speaks of a young poet
in Egypt as the author of a tragedy, epic poems, and dithyrambs, appears likewise
to allude to Andronicus. In A. D. 359, Andronicus, with several other persons
in the cast and in Egypt, incurred the suspicion of indulging in pagan practices.
He was tried by Paulus, whom the emperor had despatched for the purpose, but he
was found innocent and acquitte. (Ammian. Marcellin. xix. 12). No fragments of
his works are extant, with the exception of an epigram in the Greek Anthology.
(vii. 181)
This text is from: A dictionary of Greek and Roman biography and mythology, 1873 (ed. William Smith). Cited Nov 2005 from The Perseus Project URL below, which contains interesting hyperlinks
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