Nicolaus ARTABASDA
1. ARTABASDA (Ἁρταβάσδης), of Smyrna, of uncertain but late age, is called in a Vatican manuscript Ἀρταβάσδης, ἀριθμητικος καὶ γεωμέτρης ὁ Ῥαβδᾶ.
Works
On the Art of Counting
He was the author of a work on the art of counting with the fingers (Ἔκφρασις τοῦ δακτυλικοῦ μέτρου).
Editions
This has been published by F. Morel, Paris, 1614; Possin. Catena Graec. Patrum in Marcum, p. 449, Rome, 1673, J. A. Fabric. Observ. in varia Loca Novi Testtam., p. 159, Hamb. 1712; and J. G. Schneider, Eclogae physicae, p. 477.
Further Information
Schöll, Geschichte der Griechischen Litteratur, vol. iii. pp. 345-347.
From William Smith (ed.), Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology. Text provided under a CC BY-SA license by Perseus Digital Library, http://www.perseus.tufts.edu, with funding from the National Endowment for the Humanities and Tufts University. Data accessed from https://github.com/PerseusDL/canonical-pdlrefwk/ on 17 October 2026.