Hero'dicus
2. Of Babylon, whose epigram, attacking the grammarians of the school of Aristarchus, is quoted by Athenaeus (v. p. 222), and is included in the Greek Anthology. (Brunck,
Anal. vol. ii. p. 65; Jacobs,
Anth. Graec. vol. ii. p. 64.) From the subject of this epigram it may be safely inferred that this Herodicus of Babylon was the same person as the grammarian Herodieus, whom Athenaeus (v. p. 219 c.) calls
the Crateteian (
ὁ Κρατήτειος), and who is quoted by the Scholiast on Homer (
H. 13.29, 20.53) as differing from Aristarchus. (Comp.
Athen. 5.192. b.) His time cannot be certainly fixed, but in all probability he was one of the immediate successors of (Crates of Mallus, and one of the chief supporters of the critical school of Crates against the followers of Aristarchus.
He wrote a work on comedy, entitled
Κωμῳδούμενα, after the example of the
Τραγῳδούμενα of Asclepiades Tragilensis. (
Athen. 13.586a. p. 591c.; Harpocrat.
s. v. Σινώπη; Schol.
in Aristoph. Vesp. 1231, where the common reading
Ἁρμόδιος should be changed to
Ἡρόδικος.) Athenaeus (viii. p. 340e.) also refers to his
σύμμικτα ὑπομνήματα, and in. another passage (v. p. 215f.) to his books
Πρὸς τὸν Φιλοσωκράτην. (Ionsius,
de Script. Hist. Phil. 2.13; Wolf,
Proleg. p. cclxxvii. not. 65; Fabric.
Bibl. Graec. vol. i. p. 515; Meineke,
Hist. Crit. Com. Graec. pp. 13, 14; Jacobs,
Anth. Graec. vol. xiii. p. 903; Vossius,
de Hist. Graec. pp. 182, 183, ed. Westermann.)
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