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Ammonius

Ἀμμώνος

(Ἀμμώνος) the PERIPATETIC, who wrote only a few poems and declamations. He was a different person from Ammonius, the teacher of Plotinus. (Longin. apud Porphyr. in Plotin. vit. 100.20; Philostr. 2.27; Ruhnken, Diss. de Longino.)

From William Smith (ed.), Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology. Text provided under a CC BY-SA license by Perseus Digital Library, http://www.perseus.tufts.edu, with funding from the National Endowment for the Humanities and Tufts University. Data accessed from https://github.com/PerseusDL/canonical-pdlrefwk/ on 17 October 2026.