POLLUX, JULIUS

flourished 2nd century AD Greek scholar and rhetorician from Naukratis, Egypt. The emperor Commodus appointed him to a chair of rhetoric in Athens. He wrote an Onomasticon, a Greek thesaurus of terms. The 10-volume work, which has survived incomplete, contains rhetorical material and technical terms relating to a wide variety of subjects, as well as citations from literature. It is especially interesting in discussion of music and the theatre.