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HERODIANUS  , called b rexvcxos, Alexandrian grammarian, flourished in the 2nd century A.D . He early took up his residence at Rome, where he enjoyed the patronage of Marcus Aurelius (161-18o), to whom he dedicated his great treatise on prosody . This work in twenty-one books (KaDoXLKij irpovw, Sia) included also an account of the etymological part of grammar . The work itself is lost, but several epitomes of it have been preserved . His 'E1rcµepco•pot dealt with difficult words and peculiar forms in Homer . Herodianus also wrote numerous grammatical treatises, of which only one has come down to us in a complete form (Hepi µovijpovs M sws, on peculiar style), articles on exceptional or anomalous words . Numerous quotations and fragments still exist, chiefly in the Homeric scholiasts and Stephanus of Byzantium . Herodianus enjoyed a great reputation as a grammarian, and Priscian styles him " maximus auctor artis grammaticae." The best edition is by A . Lentz, Herodiani . Technici religuiae (1867–1870) ; a supplementary volume is included in Uhling's Corpus grammaticorum Graecorum; for further bibliographical information see W . Christ, Geschichte der griechischen Littratur (1898) .