Scanned text contains errors. of the greatest difficulty to
distinguish the different writers, and to assign to them their
respective productions. The subject has been investigated with
great care and acuteness by Ritschl, and the following are the
leading results at which he has arrived. Suidas speaks of two
writers of the name of Orion, and one of the name of Orus. The
first Orion he makes a native of Thebes in Egypt, the author of
an dvQo\6yiov in three books, dedicated to Eudo-cia, the wife of
the younger Theodosius. The second Orion he describes as an
Alexandrian grammarian, the author of, L. an dv6o\6yiov • 2.
'attj-kuv Ae|ewj/ (rvvaytayi^ ; 3. A work on etymology; 4. A
panegyric on the emperor Hadrian. Orus is said by Suidas (as the
text stands) to have been a grammarian of Alexandria, who taught
at Constantinople, the author of a treatise irepl Sixpovw^, a
treatise Trepl eflrt/ccov, one on orthography, and several
others. Now Orus and Orion are mentioned some hundreds of times
in the Etymologicum Magn