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APOLLONIUS

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Originally appearing in Volume V02, Page 186 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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APOLLONIUS  , surnamed " the Sophist," of

Alexandria, a famous grammarian, who probably lived towards the end of the 1st century A.D . He was the author of a Homeric
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lexicon (AEecs `OprlpuKai.), the only
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work of the kind we possess, His chief authorities were
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Aristarchus and
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Apion's Homeric glossary . Edition by Villoison (1773), I . Bekker (1833) ; Leyde, De Apollonii .SophistaeLexico Homerico (1885); E . W . B . Nicholson on a newly discovered fragment in Classical Review (Nov . 1897) .

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