单词 | sillograph |
释义 | sillographn. Now somewhat rare. A writer of satires or lampoons.Used chiefly as an epithet of Timon of Phlius (c320–230 b.c.). ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > literature > writer or author > [noun] > humorous writer > of lampoon or satire satirica1387 satirist1566 Juvenal1592 pasquiller1598 sillographer1656 lampooner1693 sillographist1775 squibber1810 pasquillant1817 pasquinader1824 sillograph1824 lampoonist1880 1824 I. Disraeli Curiosities of Lit. I. 158 We should like to have appropriated some of these silli, or parodies of Timon the Sillograph. 1838 A. J. W. Morrison tr. H. Ritter Hist. Anc. Philos. II. vii. i. ii. 17 By others the syllograph Timon is made the source of the tradition that Socrates had been a scholar of Archelaus. 1882 C. Edwardes tr. G. Leopardi Ess. & Dialogues 24 The Academy of Sillographs [It. Sillografi], ardently desiring to advance the common welfare, [etc.]. 1914 F. Mathews Taxation & Distribution of Wealth iv. iii. x. 401 Timon, the sillograph, styles him [sc. Xenophanes] the ‘wise reprover of the fallacies of Homer’. 1964 P. P. Hallie in S. G. Etheridge tr. Sextus Empiricus Scepticism, Man, & God Introd. 16 One of his [sc. Timon's] most influential books was a book of silloi, or lampoons (he was often called ‘the sillograph’). This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2013; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1824 |
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