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Eupithius

Εὐπίθιος

(Εὐπίθιος), an Athenian grammarian, the author of one epigram in the Greek Anthology (Brunck, Anal. vol. ii. p. 402; Jacobs, Anth. Graec. vol. iii. p. 110), which contains all we know of him, and from the contents of which, as well as from its title in the Vatican MS., τοῦ στίξαντος τὴν καθόλου, we learn that Eupithius had spent much grammatical labour on the punctuation and accentuation of the καθολικὴ προσῳδία, or ἡ καθόλου (sc. τέχνη) of Herodian. Herodian flourished under the emperor Marcus Antoninus. (Jacobs, Anth. Graec. vol. x. pp. 186, 187, vol. xiii. p. 895; Fabric. Bibl. Graec. vol. iv. p. 475.)

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.