Tryphon (grammarian)
Tryphon or Trypho (
grammarian who lived and worked in Alexandria. He was a contemporary of Didymus Chalcenterus
.
He wrote several specialized works on aspects of
accentuation, pronunciation, and orthography, as well as a grammar (Τέχνη Γραμματική, Tékhne grammatiké) and a dictionary. The two extant works that bear his name, On Meters and On Tropes, may or may not be by him. He had a pupil named Abron.[1]
References
Footnotes
- ^ Smith, William (1867), "Abron", in Smith, William (ed.), Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology, vol. 1, Boston, MA, p. 3
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Sources
- Der Kleine Pauly, hg. Konrad Ziegler, Walther Sontheimer, Hans Gaertner, München, 1979, s.v. Tryphon 4
- Suda On Line, s.v. Tryphon
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