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Antioch Antioch on the Orontes (; , ) "Antioch on Daphne"; or "Antioch the Great"; ; ; ; ; ; ; . was a Hellenistic Greek city founded by Seleucus I Nicator in 300 BC. One of the most important Greek cities of the Hellenistic period, it served as ...

() was a Greek grammarian who flourished in the 2nd century CE. According to the ''

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,Suda α 3948'' he wrote treatises on

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and

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, and an onomasticon (vocabulary), described as "a wonderful production." Endnote: Text by Barker, 1823; Schmidt, 1860; see also Galland, ''De Arcadii qui fertur libro de accentibus'' (1882). (''Peri tonon''), an epitome of the major work of

Herodian Herodian or Herodianus () of Syria, sometimes referred to as "Herodian of Antioch" (c. 170 – c. 240), was a minor Roman civil servant who wrote a colourful history in Greek titled ''History of the Empire from the Death of Marcus'' (τῆς με ...

on general prosody in twenty books, was wrongly attributed to Arcadius; it is probably the work of Theodosius or a grammarian named Aristodemus. Though meager and carelessly assembled, it preserves the order of the original and so affords a foundation for its reconstruction.

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''Peri tonon''
Edmund Henry Barker (ed.),

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, 1820; Greek text with Latin commentary at the

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