Dioscorius
Διοσκόρος
(Διοσκόρος) of Myra, was the instructor in grammar of the daughters of the emperor Leo, at Byzantium, and also prefect of the city and of the praetorians. (Suid. s. v.)
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.