Tryphon or Trypho ( el, Τρύφων, ''gen''.: Τρύφωνος; c. 60 BC – 10 BC) was a

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grammarian who lived and worked in

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. He was a contemporary of

Didymus Chalcenterus Didymus Chalcenterus (Latin; Greek: , ''Dídymos Chalkéderos'', "Didymus Bronze-Guts"; c. 63 BC – c. AD 10), was an Ancient Greek scholar and grammarian who flourished in the time of Cicero and Augustus. Life The epithet "Bronze-Guts" came f ...

. He wrote several specialized works on aspects of

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and

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

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s on word-types,

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, and

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

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*''Der Kleine Pauly,'' hg. Konrad Ziegler, Walther Sontheimer, Hans Gaertner, München, 1979, s.v. Tryphon 4
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