Zenobius (Ancient Greek:Ζηνόβιος) was aGreeksophist, who taught rhetoric atRome during the reign of EmperorHadrian (AD 117–138).^[1]

He was the author of a collection of proverbs in three books, still extant in an abridged form, compiled, according to theSuda,^[2] fromDidymus of Alexandria and "The Tarrhaean" (Lucillus ofTarrha, a polis inCrete).^[3] In the work, the proverbs arealphabetised and grouped by hundreds. This collection was first printed byFilippo Giunti in Florence, 1497.

Zenobius is also said to have been the author of a Greek translation of the Latin prose authorSallust, which has been lost, and of a birthday poem on the emperor Hadrian.^[3]

•  Smith, William, ed. (1873)."Zeno'bius".Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology.
•  This article incorporates text from a publication now in thepublic domain: Chisholm, Hugh, ed. (1911). "Zenobius".Encyclopædia Britannica. Vol. 28 (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press. p. 972. Endnotes:
  • T. Gaisford (1836) andE. L. Leutsch–F. W. Schneiderwin (1839)
  • B. E. Miller,Mélanges de littérature grecque (1868)
  • W. Christ,Griechische Litteraturgeschichte (1898)

• Furley, William D., "Zenobius (2). Grammaticus Greek scholar in Rome, at the time of Hadrian", inBrill's New Pauly: Encyclopaedia of the Ancient World. Antiquity, Volume 15, Tuc-Zyt, edited by Hubert Cancik and Helmuth Schneider,Brill, 2009.ISBN 978-90-04-14220-6.Online version at Brill.

• Corpus paroemiographorum graecorum, E. L. Leutsch, F. G. Schneidewin (ed.), vol. 1, Gottingae, apud Vandenohoeck et Ruprecht, 1839,pp. 1–176.
• Discussion about Zenobius at Roger-Pearse.com

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