Tryphon

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For the saint, see Tryphon, Respicius, and Nympha.

For the ruler, see Diodotus Tryphon.

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.

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