The Suda or Souda ( Greek: Σοῦδα ) is a massive 10th century Byzantine encyclopedia of the ancient Mediterranean world, formerly attributed to an author called Suidas.

The name " saros " () was first given to the eclipse cycle by Edmond Halley in 1691, who took it from the Suda, a Byzantine lexicon of the 11th century.

According to Suda, both his " constitution " () and his " precepts " () were composed in elegiac couplets, but Pausanias also mentions " anapests ", a few lines of which, quoted by Dio Chrysostom and attributed to Tyrtaeus by a scholiast, could have belonged to the so-called " war songs " (), of which nothing else survives.

According to the Suda, Aristarchus wrote 800 treatises () on various topics ; these are all lost but for fragments preserved in the various scholia.

A lost work by Agaclytus describing Olympia () is referred to by the Suda and Photius.

This theory is based on the absence of any mention of cavalry in Herodotus ' account of the battle, and an entry in the Suda dictionary.

Nutton believes that " On Theriac to Piso " is genuine, the Arabic sources are correct and that the Suda has erroneously interpreted the 70 years of Galen's career in the Arabic tradition as referring to his whole lifespan.

Moreover, the fact that the Suda is the only source we have for the heroic role played by Herodotus, as liberator of his birthplace, is itself a good reason to doubt such a romantic account.

Herodotus's recitation at Olympia was a favourite theme among ancient writers and there is another interesting variation on the story to be found in the Suda, Photius and Tzetzes, in which a young Thucydides happened to be in the assembly with his father and burst into tears during the recital, whereupon Herodotus observed prophetically to the boy's father: " Thy son's soul yearns for knowledge.

* 1943 – The cargo vessel Sinfra is attacked by Allied aircraft at Suda Bay, Crete, and sunk.

Apart from his own writings, the main source for Procopius ' life is an entry in the Suda, a 10th century Byzantine encyclopedia that tells nothing about his early life.

The Suda is alone in claiming that Sappho was married to a " very wealthy man called Cercylas, who traded from Andros " and that he was Cleïs ' father.

Porphyry and Iamblichus refer to a biography of Pythagoras by Apollonius, which has not survived ; it is also mentioned in the Suda.

Another explanation, in the Suda ( 10th century ), is that " He was called Trismegistus on account of his praise of the trinity, saying there is one divine nature in the trinity.

Simonides is identified in the Suda as the son of a Leoprepes.

" The Suda credits him also with inventing " the third note of the lyre " ( which is known to be wrong since the lyre had seven strings from the 7th century ), and four letters of the Greek alphabet.

The Suda is somewhere between a grammatical dictionary and an encyclopedia in the modern sense.

Although the work is uncritical and probably much interpolated, and the value of its articles is very unequal, the Suda contains much useful information on ancient history and life.

The system is not difficult to learn and remember, but some editors — for example, Immanuel Bekker -- rearranged the Suda alphabetically.

She is best known for her critical, standard edition of the Suda, which she published in 5 volumes ( Leipzig, 1928 – 1938 ).

In the ancient manuscripts of his work, he is invariably referred to as " Laertius Diogenes ," and this form of the name is repeated by Sopater, and the Suda.

In the Byzantine encyclopedia called the Suda, Talos is said, when the Sardinians did not wish to release him to Minos, to have heated himself – by jumping into a fire and to have clasped them in his embrace.

A goddess Macaria is named in the Suda.

His influence on philosophical thinking lasted until the Middle Ages, as is shown by citation in the Suda, the massive medieval lexicon.

It was commonly attributed to Homer, as by Aristotle ( Poetics 13. 92 ): " His Margites indeed provides an analogy: as are the Iliad and Odyssey to our tragedies, so is the Margites to our comedies "; but the work, among a mixed genre of works loosely labelled " Homerica " in Antiquity, was more reasonably attributed to Pigres, a Greek poet of Halicarnassus, in the massive medieval Greek encyclopedia called Suda.

According to the Suda, the massive tenth century Byzantine Greek historical encyclopedia, he was the son of Socles, but was adopted by Lycus of Rhegium.

Plutarch explicitly states that Eurydice was an Illyrian, so does Libanius and thus is stated in the massive 10th century Byzantine encyclopedia, Suda.

According to the Suda, a 10th century encyclopedia, Alexis was the paternal uncle of the dramatist Menander and wrote 245 comedies, of which only fragments now survive, including some 130 preserved titles.

Information about Hippocrates can also be found in the writings of Aristotle, which date from the 4th century BC, in the Suda of the 10th century AD, and in the works of John Tzetzes, which date from the 12th century AD.

The Suda, a 10th century Byzantine encyclopædia, dates her to the 42nd Olympiad ( 612 / 608 BC ), meaning either that she was born then or that this was her floruit.

A page from a 16th-century edition of the 10th century Byzantine encyclopaedia of the ancient Mediterranean world, the Suda.

It would thus appear that the Suda was compiled in the latter part of the 10th century.

Another explanation, in the Suda ( 10th century ), is that " He was called Trismegistus on account of his praise of the trinity, saying there is one divine nature in the trinity ".

A page from a 16th-century edition of the 10th century Byzantine encyclopaedia of the ancient Mediterranean world, the Suda.

Much later, the Byzantine Greek encyclopedia, Suda ( 10th century?

Further scattered details can be found in Pausanias's Description of Greece, while the Byzantine Suda dictionary of the 10th century AD preserves some anecdotes found nowhere else.

In the 10th century, the author of the Suda used alphabetic order with phonetic variations.

The Suda ( a 10th century Byzantine Greek encyclopedia of known inaccuracy ) states that Pappus was of the same age as Theon of Alexandria, who flourished in the reign of Emperor Theodosius I ( 372 – 395 AD ).

Christian writers after Eusebius are probably reliant on him, but include Pseudo-Justinus ( 3rd – 5th century ), Hesychius of Alexandria ( 5th century ), Agathias ( 536 – 582 ), Moses of Chorene ( 8th century ), an unknown geographer of unknown date, and the Suda ( Byzantine dictionary from the 10th century ).

Though no name of a philosophical work by him is known, according to the Suda, the 10th century Byzantine encyclopedia, he wrote a treatise on the poetry of Hesiod and Homer, but nothing of them has survived.

The Suda is a 10th century Byzantine encyclopedia, incorporating earlier material.

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A useful example is provided by the Suda, a 10th century Byzantine encyclopaedia, here reproduced in an English translation from a Loeb edition.

The Suda, a 10th century Medieval Greek historical encyclopedia, describes the novel as having ten books when the version we have is divided into five.