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Sculpture by <a href="/wiki/Charles_Dupaty" title="Charles Dupaty">Charles Dupaty</a>.</figcaption></figure> <p>In <a href="/wiki/Greek_mythology" title="Greek mythology">Greek mythology</a>, <b>Phorbas</b> (<span class="rt-commentedText nowrap"><span class="IPA nopopups noexcerpt" lang="en-fonipa"><a href="/wiki/Help:IPA/English" title="Help:IPA/English">/<span style="border-bottom:1px dotted"><span title="/ˈ/: primary stress follows">ˈ</span><span title="'f' in 'find'">f</span><span title="/ɔːr/: 'ar' in 'war'">ɔːr</span><span title="'b' in 'buy'">b</span><span title="/ə/: 'a' in 'about'">ə</span><span title="'s' in 'sigh'">s</span></span>/</a></span></span>; <a href="/wiki/Ancient_Greek" title="Ancient Greek">Ancient Greek</a>: Φόρβας <i>Phórbās</i>, <a href="/wiki/Genitive_case" title="Genitive case">gen.</a> Φόρβαντος <i>Phórbantos</i> means 'giving pasture'), or <b>Phorbaceus</b><sup class="noprint Inline-Template Template-Fact" style="white-space:nowrap;">[<i><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed" title="Wikipedia:Citation needed"><span title="This claim needs references to reliable sources. (October 2018)">citation needed</span></a></i>]</sup> <span class="rt-commentedText nowrap"><span class="IPA nopopups noexcerpt" lang="en-fonipa"><a href="/wiki/Help:IPA/English" title="Help:IPA/English">/<span style="border-bottom:1px dotted"><span title="'f' in 'find'">f</span><span title="/ɔːr/: 'ar' in 'war'">ɔːr</span><span title="/ˈ/: primary stress follows">ˈ</span><span title="'b' in 'buy'">b</span><span title="/eɪ/: 'a' in 'face'">eɪ</span><span title="/ˌ/: secondary stress follows">ˌ</span><span title="/ʃ/: 'sh' in 'shy'">ʃ</span></span>(<span style="border-bottom:1px dotted"><span title="/j/: 'y' in 'yes'">j</span></span>)<span style="border-bottom:1px dotted"><span title="/uː/: 'oo' in 'goose'">uː</span><span title="'s' in 'sigh'">s</span></span>/</a></span></span>, may refer to: </p> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Phorbas_(son_of_Lapithes)" title="Phorbas (son of Lapithes)">Phorbas</a>, son of <a href="/wiki/Lapithes_(hero)" title="Lapithes (hero)">Lapithes</a> and Orsinome, and a brother of <a href="/wiki/Periphas" title="Periphas">Periphas</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Phorbas_(son_of_Triopas)" title="Phorbas (son of Triopas)">Phorbas</a>, son of <a href="/wiki/Triopas" title="Triopas">Triopas</a> and <a href="/wiki/Hiscilla" title="Hiscilla">Hiscilla</a>, daughter of <a href="/wiki/Myrmidon_(hero)" title="Myrmidon (hero)">Myrmidon</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Phorbas_(king_of_Argos)" title="Phorbas (king of Argos)">Phorbas</a>, king of Argos, father of a different <a href="/wiki/Triopas" title="Triopas">Triopas</a> who succeeded him as king. Triopas was the brother of Arestor<sup id="cite_ref-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li>Phorbas, a shepherd of King <a href="/wiki/Laius" title="Laius">Laius</a>, who found the infant <a href="/wiki/Oedipus" title="Oedipus">Oedipus</a> on the hillside and ensured his survival to fulfill his destiny.<sup id="cite_ref-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> A number of sculptures, ranging from the 14th to the 19th century, memorialize Phorbas' rescue of Oedipus. He might be the same as Phorbas, attendant of <a href="/wiki/Antigone" title="Antigone">Antigone</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-5" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li>Phorbas, listed as a <a href="/wiki/Kings_of_Athens" class="mw-redirect" title="Kings of Athens">king or archon of Athens</a><sup id="cite_ref-6" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li>Phorbas of <a href="/wiki/Lesbos" title="Lesbos">Lesbos</a>, father of <a href="/wiki/Diomede" title="Diomede">Diomede</a><sup id="cite_ref-7" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-7"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>7<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li>Phorbas of <a href="/wiki/Troy" title="Troy">Troy</a>, who was favored and made rich by <a href="/wiki/Hermes" title="Hermes">Hermes</a>. He had a son <a href="/wiki/Ilioneus" title="Ilioneus">Ilioneus</a>, who was killed by <a href="/wiki/Peneleos" title="Peneleos">Peneleos</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-8" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-8"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>8<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li>Phorbas, son of <a href="/wiki/Metion" title="Metion">Metion</a> of <a href="/wiki/Syene" class="mw-redirect" title="Syene">Syene</a>, who fought on <a href="/wiki/Phineus_(son_of_Belus)" title="Phineus (son of Belus)">Phineus</a>' side against <a href="/wiki/Perseus" title="Perseus">Perseus</a><sup id="cite_ref-9" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-9"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>9<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li>Phorbas of <a href="/wiki/Acarnania" title="Acarnania">Acarnania</a>, son of <a href="/wiki/Poseidon" title="Poseidon">Poseidon</a>, who went to <a href="/wiki/Eleusis" class="mw-redirect" title="Eleusis">Eleusis</a> together with <a href="/wiki/Eumolpus" title="Eumolpus">Eumolpus</a> to fight against <a href="/wiki/Erechtheus" title="Erechtheus">Erechtheus</a>, and was killed by the opponent.<sup id="cite_ref-10" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-10"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>10<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li>Phorbas, one of the twelve younger <a href="/wiki/Pan_(god)" title="Pan (god)">Panes</a><sup id="cite_ref-11" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-11"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>11<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li>Phorbas, son of <a href="/wiki/Helios" title="Helios">Helios</a> and father of Ambracia (<a href="/wiki/Eponym" title="Eponym">eponym</a> of the city of <a href="/wiki/Ambracia" title="Ambracia">Ambracia</a>). Ambracia could also have been daughter of Augeas, granddaughter of Phorbas of Thessaly.<sup id="cite_ref-12" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-12"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>12<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li>Phorbas, who is called father of <a href="/wiki/Tiresias" title="Tiresias">Tiresias</a> by the <a href="/wiki/Crete" title="Crete">Cretans</a><sup id="cite_ref-13" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-13"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>13<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li>Phorbas, charioteer of <a href="/wiki/Theseus" title="Theseus">Theseus</a><sup id="cite_ref-14" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-14"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>14<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li>Phorbas, father of Dexithea who, according to one version, was the mother of <a href="/wiki/Romulus_and_Remus" title="Romulus and Remus">Romulus and Remus</a> by <a href="/wiki/Aeneas" title="Aeneas">Aeneas</a><sup id="cite_ref-15" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-15"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>15<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li>Phorbas, suitor of <a href="/w/index.php?title=Megara_(Greek_myth)&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Megara (Greek myth) (page does not exist)">Megara</a>, mother of <a href="/wiki/Ixion" title="Ixion">Ixion</a> in one source. Together with another suitor, <a href="/wiki/Polymelus_(mythology)" title="Polymelus (mythology)">Polymelos</a>, they slain Megara and, in vengeance, were murdered by the latter’s son.<sup id="cite_ref-16" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-16"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>16<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="See_also">See also</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Phorbas&action=edit&section=1" title="Edit section: See also"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Phorbus_(mythology)" title="Phorbus (mythology)">Phorbus (mythology)</a></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Notes">Notes</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Phorbas&action=edit&section=2" title="Edit section: 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class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-5">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><a href="/wiki/Statius" title="Statius">Statius</a>, <i><a href="/wiki/Thebaid_(Latin_poem)" title="Thebaid (Latin poem)">Thebaid</a></i> 7.253</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-6"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-6">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><a href="/wiki/Pausanias_(geographer)" title="Pausanias (geographer)">Pausanias</a>, 6.19.13</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-7"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-7">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><a href="/wiki/Homer" title="Homer">Homer</a>, <i><a href="/wiki/Iliad" title="Iliad">Iliad</a></i> 9.665; <a href="/wiki/Dictys_Cretensis" title="Dictys Cretensis">Dictys Cretensis</a>, <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://topostext.org/work/152#2.16">2.16</a></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-8"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-8">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Homer, <i>Iliad</i> 14.489 ff.; <a href="/wiki/Virgil" title="Virgil">Virgil</a>, <i><a href="/wiki/Aeneid" title="Aeneid">Aeneid</a></i> 5.842</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-9"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-9">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><a href="/wiki/Ovid" title="Ovid">Ovid</a>, <i><a href="/wiki/Metamorphoses" title="Metamorphoses">Metamorphoses</a></i> 5.74</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-10"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-10">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><a href="/wiki/Eustathius_of_Thessalonica" title="Eustathius of Thessalonica">Eustathius</a> on Homer, p. 1156; <a href="/wiki/Scholia" title="Scholia">Scholia</a> on Homer, <i>Iliad</i> 18.483 ff.; Scholia on <a href="/wiki/Euripides" title="Euripides">Euripides</a>, <i><a href="/wiki/Phoenician_Women" class="mw-redirect" title="Phoenician Women">Phoenician Women</a></i> 854; <a href="/wiki/Suda" title="Suda">Suda</a>, s.v. <i>Phorbanteion</i></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-11"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-11">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><a href="/wiki/Nonnus" title="Nonnus">Nonnus</a>, 14.94 ff.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-12"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-12">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><a href="/wiki/Stephanus_of_Byzantium" title="Stephanus of Byzantium">Stephanus of Byzantium</a>, s.v. <i>Ambrakia</i>, <i>Dexamenai</i></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-13"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-13">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><a href="/wiki/Ptolemy_Hephaestion" class="mw-redirect" title="Ptolemy Hephaestion">Ptolemy Hephaestion</a>, <i>New History</i> 1</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-14"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-14">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><a href="/wiki/Hesychius_of_Alexandria" title="Hesychius of Alexandria">Hesychius of Alexandria</a>, s.v. <i>Phorbas</i></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-15"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-15">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><a href="/wiki/Plutarch" title="Plutarch">Plutarch</a>, <i>Romulus</i> 2.2</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-16"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-16">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><i><a href="/wiki/Greek_Anthology" title="Greek Anthology">Greek Anthology</a></i> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://topostext.org/work/532#3.12">3.12</a> <a href="//archive.org/details/greekanthology01pato/page/100/mode/1up" class="extiw" title="iarchive:greekanthology01pato/page/100/mode/1up">(Gk text)</a></span> </li> </ol></div></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="References">References</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Phorbas&action=edit&section=3" title="Edit section: References"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Dictys_Cretensis" title="Dictys Cretensis">Dictys Cretensis</a><i>, from The Trojan War.</i> <i>The Chronicles of Dictys of Crete and <a href="/wiki/Dares_Phrygius" title="Dares Phrygius">Dares the Phrygian</a></i> translated by Richard McIlwaine Frazer Jr. (1931-). Indiana University Press. 1966. <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://topostext.org/work/152">Online version at the Topos Text Project.</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Diodorus_Siculus" title="Diodorus Siculus">Diodorus Siculus</a>, <i>The Library of History</i> translated by <a href="/wiki/Charles_Henry_Oldfather" title="Charles Henry Oldfather">Charles Henry Oldfather</a>. Twelve volumes. <a href="/wiki/Loeb_Classical_Library" title="Loeb Classical Library">Loeb Classical Library</a>. Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press; London: William Heinemann, Ltd. 1989. Vol. 3. Books 4.59–8. <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/E/Roman/Texts/Diodorus_Siculus/home.html">Online version at Bill Thayer's Web Site</a></li> <li>Diodorus Siculus, <i>Bibliotheca Historica. Vol 1-2</i>. Immanel Bekker. Ludwig Dindorf. Friedrich Vogel. in aedibus B. G. Teubneri. Leipzig. 1888–1890. <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus:text:2008.01.0540">Greek text available at the Perseus Digital Library</a>.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Homer" title="Homer">Homer</a>, <a href="/wiki/Iliad" title="Iliad"><i>The Iliad</i></a> with an English Translation by A.T. Murray, Ph.D. in two volumes. Cambridge, MA., Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann, Ltd. 1924. <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222" /><a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-0674995796" title="Special:BookSources/978-0674995796">978-0674995796</a>. <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus:text:1999.01.0134">Online version at the Perseus Digital Library.</a></li> <li>Homer, <i>Homeri Opera</i> in five volumes. Oxford, Oxford University Press. 1920. <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222" /><a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-0198145318" title="Special:BookSources/978-0198145318">978-0198145318</a>. <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus:text:1999.01.0133">Greek text available at the Perseus Digital Library</a>.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Seneca_the_Younger" title="Seneca the Younger">Lucius Annaeus Seneca</a>, <i>Tragedies</i>. Translated by Miller, Frank Justus. Loeb Classical Library Volumes. Cambridge, MA, Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann Ltd. 1917. <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.theoi.com/Text/SenecaOedipus.html">Online version at theio.com.</a></li> <li>Lucius Annaeus Seneca, <i>Tragoediae</i>. Rudolf Peiper. Gustav Richter. Leipzig. Teubner. 1921. <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus:text:2007.01.0007">Latin text available at the Perseus Digital Library.</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Nonnus" title="Nonnus">Nonnus of Panopolis</a>, <i>Dionysiaca</i> translated by William Henry Denham Rouse (1863–1950), from the Loeb Classical Library, Cambridge, MA, Harvard University Press, 1940. <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://topostext.org/work/529">Online version at the Topos Text Project.</a></li> <li>Nonnus of Panopolis, <i>Dionysiaca. 3 Vols.</i> W.H.D. Rouse. Cambridge, MA., Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann, Ltd. 1940–1942. <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus:text:2008.01.0485">Greek text available at the Perseus Digital Library</a>.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Pausanias_(geographer)" title="Pausanias (geographer)">Pausanias</a>, <i>Description of Greece</i> with an English Translation by W.H.S. Jones, Litt.D., and H.A. Ormerod, M.A., in 4 Volumes. Cambridge, MA, Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann Ltd. 1918. <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222" /><a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/0-674-99328-4" title="Special:BookSources/0-674-99328-4">0-674-99328-4</a>. <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus:text:1999.01.0160">Online version at the Perseus Digital Library</a></li> <li>Pausanias, <i>Graeciae Descriptio.</i> <i>3 vols</i>. Leipzig, Teubner. 1903. <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus:text:1999.01.0159">Greek text available at the Perseus Digital Library</a>.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Bibliotheca_(Pseudo-Apollodorus)" class="mw-redirect" title="Bibliotheca (Pseudo-Apollodorus)">Pseudo-Apollodorus</a>, <i>The Library</i> with an English Translation by Sir James George Frazer, F.B.A., F.R.S. in 2 Volumes, Cambridge, MA, Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann Ltd. 1921. <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222" /><a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/0-674-99135-4" title="Special:BookSources/0-674-99135-4">0-674-99135-4</a>. <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus:text:1999.01.0022">Online version at the Perseus Digital Library.</a> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus:text:1999.01.0021">Greek text available from the same website</a>.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ovid" title="Ovid">Publius Ovidius Naso</a>, <i>Metamorphoses</i> translated by Brookes More (1859–1942). Boston, Cornhill Publishing Co. 1922. <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus:text:1999.02.0028">Online version at the Perseus Digital Library.</a></li> <li>Publius Ovidius Naso, <i>Metamorphoses.</i> Hugo Magnus. Gotha (Germany). Friedr. Andr. Perthes. 1892. <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus:text:1999.02.0029">Latin text available at the Perseus Digital Library</a>.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Statius" title="Statius">Publius Papinius Statius</a><i>, The Thebaid</i> translated by John Henry Mozley. Loeb Classical Library Volumes. Cambridge, MA, Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann Ltd. 1928. <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://topostext.org/work/149">Online version at the Topos Text Project.</a></li> <li>Publius Papinius Statius, <i>The Thebaid. Vol I-II</i>. John Henry Mozley. London: William Heinemann; New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons. 1928. <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus:text:2008.01.0498">Latin text available at the Perseus Digital Library.</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Virgil" title="Virgil">Publius Vergilius Maro</a>, <i>Aeneid.</i> Theodore C. Williams. trans. Boston. Houghton Mifflin Co. 1910. <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus%3Atext%3A1999.02.0054%3Abook%3D1%3Acard%3D1">Online version at the Perseus Digital Library.</a></li> <li>Publius Vergilius Maro, <i>Bucolics, Aeneid, and Georgics</i>. J. B. Greenough. Boston. Ginn & Co. 1900. <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus:text:1999.02.0055">Latin text available at the Perseus Digital Library</a>.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Stephanus_of_Byzantium" title="Stephanus of Byzantium">Stephanus of Byzantium</a>, <i>Stephani Byzantii Ethnicorum quae supersunt,</i> edited by August Meineike (1790–1870), published 1849. A few entries from this important ancient handbook of place names have been translated by Brady Kiesling. <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://topostext.org/work/241">Online version at the Topos Text Project.</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Suda" title="Suda">Suida</a>, <i>Suda Encyclopedia</i> translated by Ross Scaife, David Whitehead, William Hutton, Catharine Roth, Jennifer Benedict, Gregory Hays, Malcolm Heath Sean M. Redmond, Nicholas Fincher, Patrick Rourke, Elizabeth Vandiver, Raphael Finkel, Frederick Williams, Carl Widstrand, Robert Dyer, Joseph L. 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