Stobaeus

Stobaeus in Wikipedia

Joannes Stobaeus (Greek: Ἰωάννης ὁ Στοβαῖος), so called from his native place Stobi in North Macedonia (Roman province), was the compiler of a valuable series of extracts from Greek authors. Biography and works Of his life nothing is known, but he probably lived during the latter half of the 5th century AD. From his silence in regard to Christian ...

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Stobaeus in Harpers Dictionary of Classical Antiquities (1898)

Ioannes (Ιωάννης ὁ Στοβαῖος). A Greek writer of uncertain date (probably about A.D. 500), who derived his surname apparently from being a native of Stobi in Macedonia. Of his personal history we know nothing. Stobaeus was a man of extensive reading, in the course of which he noted down the most interesting passages; and to him we are indebted for a...

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