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ἱστοριογράφ-ος

istoriographos · ὁ

writer of history, historian

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What it meant

ἱστοριογράφ-ος · historiograph-os — LSJ

writer of history, historian, chronicler

writer of history, historian, Inscr.Prien. 37.107 (ii B.C.), Plb. 2.62.2, Phld. Rh. 1.359 S., D.S. 1.9, Ath.Mech. 7.2, etc.: chronicler, as distd. from συγγραφεύς (writer of contemporary history), Sch.D.T. p.168H.; Ἔφορος ὁ ἱ., opp. Ἡρόδοτος ὁ συγγρ., Placit. 4.1.6:—Dor. ἱστοριαγράφος, οἱ ἱ. οἱ συγγεγραφότες τὰς Μαγνήτων πράξεις SIG 560.13, cf. 702.3 (Delph., ii B.C.), 685.93 (Crete).

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