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AMMONIUS GRAMMATICUS

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Originally appearing in Volume V01, Page 864 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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AMMONIUS GRAMMATICUS , the supposed author of a See also:

treatise entitled Hap; o,uoian, Kai btaq1bpcav Wean/ (On, the See also:Differences of Synonymous Expressions), of whom nothing is known. He was formerly identified with an See also:Egyptian See also:priest who, after the destruction of the See also:pagan See also:temple at See also:Alexandria (389), fled to See also:Constantinople, where he became the See also:tutor of the ecclesiastical historian See also:Socrates. But it seems more probable that the real author was Herennius See also:Philo of Byblus, who was See also:born during the reign of See also:Nero and lived till the reign of See also:Hadrian, and that the treatise in its See also:present See also:form is a revision prepared by a later See also:Byzantine editor, whose name may have been Ammonius. See also:Text by Valckenaer, 1739, Schafer, 1822 ; See also:Kopp, De Ammonii .. . Distinctionibus Synonymicis, 1883.

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