Symmachus
author: Sebastian P. Brock
source date: 2011
edition published: 2016-09-22-16:00
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Symmachus

https://gedsh.bethmardutho.org/Symmachus http://syriaca.org/bibl/533 524 http://syriaca.org/person/761 [person] [Author of a supplement to Gregory of Nyssa’s unfinished ‘Commentary on the Song of Songs’, preserved at the end of the Syriac translation of .]

Author of a supplement (covering Cant. 6:12 to the end; probably originally in Greek), preserved at the end of the Syriac translation of Gregory of Nyssa ’s unfinished ‘Commentary on the Song of Songs’. This Symmachus, who is otherwise unknown, should be distinguished from Symmachus, the Jewish Greek translator of the Old Testament, whose readings are cited in the margin of the Syro-Hexapla; and from another equally unknown Symmachus, the author of a prose Life of Abel (ed. with ET, S. P. Brock, LM 87 [1974], 467–92; Syr. also in idem, Luqoṭo d-mimre d-ʿal ktobay qudšo [1993], 7–14).

Sources

C. Van den Eynde, La version syriaque du Commentaire de Grégoire de Nysse sur le Cantique des Cantiques (1939), 34–42, 77–89, 103–16.

Sebastian P. Brock