NICANOR  ,

Greek grammarian, son of Hermeias of Alexandria (or Hierapolis), lived during the reign of Hadrian . He chiefly devoted himself to the study of punctuation and the difference of meaning caused by it . Hence he was nicknamed " the Punctuator " (3 vreyµartas) . He is known to have written on the punctuation of Homer and Callimachus . He was possibly the author of a work Hepl Me-rovoµaviwv (On the Change of Names of Places), of which some fragments are preserved in C . W . Muller, Fragmenta Historicorum Graecorum, iii . 632 . Edition of the Iliad and Odyssey fragments by L . Friedlander (1850) and O . Carnuth (1875) respectively .