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Apollonius

18. Surnamed EIDOGRAPHUS (εἰδογράφος), a writer referred to by the Scholiast on Pindar (Pind. P. 2.1) respecting a contest in which Hiero won the prize. Some writers have thought he was a poet, but from the Etymol. M. (s. v. εἰδοΔέα) it is probable that he was some learned grammarian.

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.