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Headword:
Γαϊανός
Adler number: gamma,9
Translated headword: Gaianus, Gaianos
Vetting Status: high
Translation: Of Arabia. Sophist; a pupil of
Apsines of
Gadara.[1] He lived in the time of [the emperors]
Maximus and Gordian.[2] [He wrote]
On Construction (5 books);
Art of Rhetoric;
Declamations. He practiced as a sophist in Berytus.[3]
Γαϊανός, Ἀράβιος, σοφιστὴς, μαθητὴς Ἀψίνου τοῦ Γαδαρέως. ἦν δὲ ἐπί τε Μαξίμου καὶ Γορδιανοῦ. Περὶ συντάξεως βιβλία ε#, Τέχνην ῥητορικὴν, Μελέτας. ἐσοφίστευσεν ἐν Βηρυτῷ.
Notes:
RE Gaianus(2);
PIR 2 G17. Though it is chronologically unlikely Schmid in
RE s.v. "Gagianos" suggests that is possible that this Gaianus is identical with Gaianus of
Smyrna, a rhetor active under the Antonine emperors; cf.
Phrynichus 394.14 Fischer (Lobeck, p. 418, read
Γαγιανός , but such a name is unattested elsewhere and could be a variant spelling for the present name. Schmid, loc. cit., suggests a connection with the Lydian city of Gagai).
[1]
Apsines:
alpha 4735.
[2] Probably a garbled reference to Maximinus Thrax (emperor 235-238) and Gordian III (238-244), though surely Gaianus lived under other emperors as well, and what is meant is his floruit. See n. 4 at
alpha 4735.
[3] Modern Beirut. There may be some confusion here between this Gaianus and the like-named friend and correspondent of Libanios in the next century (cf.
RE s.v. Gaianus(3), and Libanios
Epistle 1364, etc.).
Keywords: biography; chronology; geography; history; philosophy; rhetoric
Translated by: Malcolm Heath on 22 June 2000@14:43:53.
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