Tro'ilus
(
*Trw/i+los), a sophist of some distinction, who taught at Constantinople, under Arcadius and Honorius, at the beginning of the fifth century of our era, was a native of Side in Pamphylia. Among his disciples were Eusebius Scholasticus, Ablabius. a Novatian bishop of Nicaea, and Silvanus, bishop of Philippopolis.
Works
Troilus wrote, according to Suidas,
λόγοι πολιτικοί, and seven books of letters. (Socrat.
H. E. 6.6, 7.1, 27; Suid. s.v. Fabric.
Bibl. Graec. vol. vi. p. 140; Clinton,
Fast. Rom. s. aa. 401, 408.)
Epigram
There is an epigram in the Greek Anthology on the athlete Lyron, ascribed to a grammarian Troilus, whom Schneider and Jacobs identify with the Sophist; though Fabricius supposes the two persons to be different, without stating his reason.
Further Information
Fabric.
Bibl. Graec. vol. i. p. 498; Brunck,
Anal. vol. ii. p. 450; Jacobs,
Anth. Graec. vol. iii. p. 155, vol. xiii. p. 962.
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