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in the Prooemium to his own Lexicon. It is doubtful whether he was the author of the comic lexicon quoted by the
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was a grammarian who taught at Rome in the reigns of the emperors
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Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology
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Index

Ancient Greek
Alexandria
Augustus
Tiberius
Areius
Apion
Artemidorus of Tarsus
Hesychius
Scholiast
Apollonius Rhodius
Scholia
Aristophanes
Etymologicum Magnum
Homer
Aelius Theon
"Theon, literary (1)"
William Smith
Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology
Little, Brown and Company
Suda
Hornblower, Simon
Spawforth, Anthony
Oxford Classical Dictionary
Oxford University Press
ISBN
0-19-521693-8
Scholiast
Apollonius Rhodius
Etymologicum Magnum
Aristophanes

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