ἐξαγωγή(Ἐζεκιῆλος), the author of a
work in Greek entitled
ἐξαγωγή, which is usually called a
tragedy, but which seems rather to have been a metrical history, in the dramatic form, and
in iambic verse, written in imitation of the Greek tragedies. The subject was the Exodus of
the Israelites from Egypt. The author appears to have been a Jew, and to have lived at the
court of the Ptolemies, at Alexandria, about the second century B. C. Considerable fragments
of the work are preserved by Eusebius (
Praep. Evang. 9.28, 29), Clemens
Alexandrinus (
Strom. i. p. 344, fol.), and Eustathius (
ad Hexaem. p. 25).
Editions
These fragments were first collected, and printed with a Latin version, by Morell, Par.
1580 and 1590, 8vo., and were reprinted in the
Poetae Christ. Graec., Par.
1609, 8vo., in Lectius's
Corpus Poet. Graec. Trag. et Com., Col.
Allobr. 1614, fol., in Bignius's
Collect. Poet. Christ., appended to
the
Biblioth. Patr. Graec., Par. 1624, fol., in the 14th volume of the
Bibl. Patr. Graec., Par. 1644-1654, fol., and in a separate form, with a
German translation and notes, by L. M. Philippson, Berlin., 1830, 8vo.