Eronda e lo iotacismo: una riconsiderazione generale del problema (con una nuova testimonianza finora ignorata)

This paper re-examines the indirect tradition of Herondas, with particular reference to the Byzantine etymologica. The focus is on both the entry ζήτρειον, already known but so far unsatisfactorily published, and a ‘new’ testimony transmitted by the Etymologicum Genuinum (s. v. ὑγίεια). The information reported in the latter is in keeping with that provided by the former and requires us to reconsider the problem of Herondas’ iotacist spellings, suggesting that a large part of them dates back to the author himself.