Abstract
AbstractPhotius’ lexicon contains an entry on the rare adjectiveἀναλφάβητος(‘illiterate, ignorant’) that cites Phrynichus Atticista. Based on this testimony, the whole passage has been edited as fr. 19 of Phrynichus’Praeparatio sophistica. This article demonstrates that in this lemma Photius conflates material which comes from Phrynichus and one other source, hypothetically identified with the anonymousAntiatticistlexicon, which preserves an abridged entry onἀναλφάβητοςand which Photius employed in the compilation of his lexicon. The article also explores the possibility that the work in which Phrynichus dealt withἀναλφάβητοςwas not thePraeparatio sophisticabut theEclogue.This hypothesis requires challenging some assumptions concerning the transmission of Atticist lexicography in the Byzantine era, chiefly the assumption that material from theEcloguedid not circulate at Byzantium before the fourteenth century.
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