Hippias
3. Of Thasus, one of the earliest Greek grammarians, who occupied himself with the explanation of difficult and obscure passages in the Homeric poems. (Aristot. Poet. 25; Soph. Elench. 1.3; Lysias, Orat. 13.54.)
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