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Metrophanes

1. Of Eucarpia, in Phrygia (comp. Steph. Byz. s. v. Εὐκαρπια), wrote a work on Phrygia, and also the following treatises on rhetoric: -- ερὶ ἰδεῶν λόγου, Περὶ στάσεων, and commentaries on Hermogenes and Aristides, in consequence of which he is regarded by some as the author of the Scholia on Aristides. (Westermann, Gescl. der Griech. Beredtsamkeit, § 104, n. 15.)

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.