Tryphon or Trypho ( el, Τρύφων, ''gen''.: Τρύφωνος; c. 60 BC – 10 BC) was a
Greek grammarian
Grammarian may refer to:
* Alexandrine grammarians, philologists and textual scholars in Hellenistic Alexandria in the 3rd and 2nd centuries BCE
* Biblical grammarians, scholars who study the Bible and the Hebrew language
* Grammarian (Greco-Roman ...
who lived and worked in
Alexandria. He was a contemporary of
Didymus Chalcenterus.
He wrote several specialized works on aspects of
language and
grammar, from which only a handful of fragments now survive. These included
treatises on word-types,
dialects,
accentuation,
pronunciation, and
orthography, as well as a grammar (Τέχνη Γραμματική, Tékhne grammatiké) and a
dictionary
A dictionary is a listing of lexemes from the lexicon of one or more specific languages, often arranged alphabetically (or by radical and stroke for ideographic languages), which may include information on definitions, usage, etymologies ...
. 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.
References
Footnotes
Sources
*''Der Kleine Pauly,'' hg. Konrad Ziegler, Walther Sontheimer, Hans Gaertner, München, 1979, s.v. Tryphon 4
Suda On Line s.v. Tryphon
Ancient Greek grammarians
60 BC births
10 BC deaths
Trope theorists
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