A Note on Pollux, Onomasticon 10. 60

Abstract

The lexicographer Julius Pollux, in his discussion of the Greek word
analogeion “reading desk”, remarks that it did not occur in any of the authors chosen
as models of correct Attic usage; however, he says, analogeion was the name of a
fountain in Athens and the word appeared in the treatise On Old Comedy of the Alexandrian
scholar Eratosthenes of Cyrene. This article discusses the meaning of some
problematic points in the passage of Pollux and the significance of the fragment of
Eratosthenes.