Dioscorides
Διοσκορίδης
(Διοσκορίδης).
1. A Byzantine grammarian, a brother of Hipparchus and Nicolaus, and a disciple of Lachares at Athens. He lived in the reign of the emperors Marcianus and Leo. (Suid. s. v. Νικόλαος; Eudoc. p. 309.)
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