Horapollon

Horapollo (from Horus Apollo; ; 5th century AD

The Suda gives the names of two men named Horapollo,

The elder Horapollo is mentioned in the Suda as a grammarian from Phenebythis, under Theodosius II (408–450). This elder Horapollo wrote commentaries on Sophocles, Alcaeus of Mytilene and Homer, and a work (, "Names for Temples") on places consecrated to the gods.

It is to the elder Horapollo the Hieroglyphica was attributed

Though a very large proportion of the statements seem absurd and cannot be accounted for by anything known in the latest and most fanciful usage, there is ample evidence in both books, in individual cases, that the tradition of the values of the hieroglyphic signs was not yet extinct in the days of their author. and is probably an addition by the Greek translator.

Editions by C. Leemans (1835) and A. T. Cory (1840) with English translation and notes; see also G. Rathgeber in Ersch and Gruber's Allgemeine Encyclopädie; H. Schafer, Zeitschrift für ägyptische Sprache (1905), p. 72.