Crossword-Solution: ONOMASTICON 11 letters, 3 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 15

Indeed, the manner in which Temple mixes the historical and the fabulous reminds us of those classical dictionaries, intended for the use of schools, in which Narcissus the lover of himself and Narcissus the freedman of Claudius, Pollux the son of Jupiter and Leda and Pollux the author of the Onomasticon, are ranged under the same headings, and treated as personages equally real.

Julius Pollux, a sophist whom Lucian is supposed to have attacked in _The Rhetorician's Vade mecum_, is best known as author of an _Onomasticon_, or word-list, containing the most important words relating to certain subjects.

The conviction is constantly forced on a translator that when Lucian has said a thing sufficiently once, he has looked at his Onomasticon, found that there are some words he has not yet got in, and forthwith said the thing again with some of them, and yet again with the rest.

Josephus informs us, that it signified a king: [345]Ὁ Φαραων παρ' Αιγυπτιοις βασιλεα σημαινει: and Ouro in the Copto-Arabic Onomasticon is said to signify the same: but I should think, that this was only a secondary acceptation of the original term.

Any place sacred to the Deity Saron was liable to have this name: hence we find plains so called in the Onomasticon of Eusebius.