Tryphon or Trypho (ca. 60 BC-10 BC) was a Greek

Ancient Greece

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 grammarian who lived and worked in Alexandria

Alexandria

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. He was a contemporary of Didymus Chalcenterus

Didymus Chalcenterus

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He wrote several specialized works on aspects of language

Language

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 and grammar

Grammar

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, from which only a handful of fragments now survive. These included treatise

Treatise

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s on word-types, dialect

Dialect

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s, accentuation

Accent (linguistics)

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, pronunciation

Pronunciation

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, and orthography

Orthography

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, as well as a grammar (Τέχνη Γραμματική, Tékhne grammatiké) and a dictionary

Dictionary

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. 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

Abron (ancient Greece)

Abron or Habron was the name of a number of people in classical Greek history:1. A son of the Attic orator Lycurgus.2. The son of Callias, of the deme of Bate in Attica, who wrote on the festivals and sacrifices of the Greeks. He also wrote a work, , which is frequently referred to by Stephanus...

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Other sources

• Der Kleine Pauly, hg. Konrad Ziegler, Walther Sontheimer, Hans Gaertner, München, 1979, s.v. Tryphon 4
• Suda On Line, s.v. Tryphon