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Lesbonax

2. A Greek grammarian, whose age is unknown, but who must at any rate be assigned to a much later period than the rhetorician Lesbonax.

Works

On Grammatical Figures (περὶ σχημάτων)

He is the author of a little work on grammatical figures (περὶ σχημάτων).

This little treatise is not without some importance, since it contains things which are not mentioned anywhere else.

Editions

This was first published by Valckenaer in his edition of Ammonius (p. 177, or in the Leipz. edit. p. 165, &c.; comp. p. xviii. &c.)

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.