Abron (ancient Greece)
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Abron or Habron (Greek Άβρων) was the name of a number of people in classical Greek history:
1. A son of the Attic orator Lycurgus.[1]
2. The son of Callias, of the deme of Bate in Attica, who wrote on the festivals and sacrifices of the Greeks.[2] He also wrote a work, περι παρωνύμων, which is frequently referred to by Stephanus of Byzantium (s.v. Αγάθη, Άργος, &c.) and other writers.
3. A Phrygian or Rhodian sophist and grammarian, pupil of Tryphon, and originally a slave, who taught at Rome under the first Caesars. He was presumably the same Habron who was the author of the treatise On the Pronoun.[3]
4. A rich person at Argos, from whom the proverb Άβρωνος βίος ("The life of Abron"), which was applied to extravagant persons, is said to have been derived.[4]
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- Smith, William (1867), “Abron”, in Smith, William, Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology, vol. 1, Boston, MA, pp. 3
This article incorporates text from the public domain Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology by William Smith (1870).
