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Aristophanes of Byzantium

–noun
257?–180? b.c., Greek scholar; librarian at Alexandria, Egypt.
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Aristophanes of By·zan·ti·um   (bĭ-zān'shē-əm, -tē-əm)   
Greek philologist who systematized the punctuation, pronunciation, and accentuation of Greek.
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Aristophanes of Byzantium

Greek literary critic and grammarian who, after early study under leading scholars in Alexandria, was chief librarian there c. 195 BC.

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