Heron
2. A grammarian, a native of Ephesus.
Works
Heron is quoted frequently by Athenaeus (ii. p. 52 b, iii. p. 76 a, p. 111 c, &c.), and in the scholia on Apollonius Rhodius (1.769, 3.2).
Other figures named Heron
Others of this name, not worth inserting, will be found mentioned in Fabricius (l.c.).
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