Tryphon Tryphon Ricky Sanchez Category="Ancient Greeks"Category="Greek linguists"Tryphon (ca. 60 BC‑10 BC) was a Greek grammarian who lived and worked in Alexandria. He was a contemporary of Didymus Chalcenterus.

He wrote several specialized works on aspects of Language and Grammar, from which only a handful of fragments now survive. These included treatises on word-types, dialects, accentuation, Pronunciation, and Orthography, as well as a grammar (Tekhné grammatiké) and a Dictionary. The two extant works that bear his name, On Meters and On Tropes, may or may not be by him.

References

Der Kleine Pauly, hg. Konrad Ziegler, Walther Sontheimer, Hans Gaertner, München (dtv) 1979, s.v. Tryphon 4

Suda On Line, s.v. Tryphon