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Orīon

Ὠρίων). A Greek scholar, a native of the Egyptian Thebes, who flourished in the fifth century A.D., and wrote at Alexandria or Constantinople an etymological lexicon and an anthology of gnomes or maxims from the Greek poets. The lexicon is edited by Sturz (Leipzig, 1820).

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