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'''Abas''' (Greek: Ἄβας) was a Greek sophist and rhetorician about whose life we know nothing. The [[Suda]] (see: Ἄβας) ascribes him the writing of Ἱστορικὰ ὑπομνήματα (historical commentaries) and Τέχνην ῥητορικὴν (art on | '''Abas''' (Greek: Ἄβας) was a Greek sophist and rhetorician about whose life we know nothing. The [[Suda]] (see: Ἄβας) ascribes him the writing of Ἱστορικὰ ὑπομνήματα (historical commentaries) and Τέχνην ῥητορικὴν (art on rhetoric). Photius (Myrobiblion, code 190) mentions an Abas that claims that the name of the wife of Candaulus in Greek mythology was not Nysai but Abro, but this quote probably belong to another Abas from an earlier work. | ||
Another Abas is quoted by [[Maurus Servius Honoratus|Servius]] as "quidam ab Abante, qui Troica scripsit" (a certain Abas, who wrote ''Troica'') (9.262) and quotes a passage from this work. | Another Abas is quoted by [[Maurus Servius Honoratus|Servius]] as "quidam ab Abante, qui Troica scripsit" (a certain Abas, who wrote ''Troica'') (9.262) and quotes a passage from this work. | ||
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Abas (Greek: Ἄβας) was a Greek sophist and rhetorician about whose life we know nothing. The Suda (see: Ἄβας) ascribes him the writing of Ἱστορικὰ ὑπομνήματα (historical commentaries) and Τέχνην ῥητορικὴν (art on rhetoric). Photius (Myrobiblion, code 190) mentions an Abas that claims that the name of the wife of Candaulus in Greek mythology was not Nysai but Abro, but this quote probably belong to another Abas from an earlier work.
Another Abas is quoted by Servius as "quidam ab Abante, qui Troica scripsit" (a certain Abas, who wrote Troica) (9.262) and quotes a passage from this work.
Source
- Smith, William. A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology. London: J. Murray, 1876, a work that is now in the public domain.
- Suda on-line
- Maurus Servius Honoratus, Commentary on the Aeneid of Vergil