He was the author of a collection of proverbs in three books, still extant in an abridged form, compiled, according to the
Suda, from
Didymus of Alexandria and "The Tarrhaean" (
Lucillus of
Tarrha, a polis in
Crete). In the work, the proverbs are
alphabetised and grouped by hundreds. This collection was first printed by
Filippo Giunti in Florence, 1497. Zenobius is also said to have been the author of a Greek translation of the Latin prose author
Sallust, which has been lost, and of a birthday poem on the emperor Hadrian. == See also ==