Demetrianus
Δημητριανός
(Δημητριανός), of Ravenna, the father of the celebrated rhetorician Aspasius, lived in the time of the emperor Alexander Severus, and was no less distinguished as a rhetorician than as a critical mathematician. (Philostr. Vit. Soph. 2.33.1; Suidas, s. v. Ἀδπάδιος.)
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