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Olympius

Ὀλύμπιος

(Ὀλύμπιος), a lawyer, born probably at Tralles in Lydia, in the sixth century after Christ. His father's name was Stephanits, who was a physician (Alex. Trall. De Medic. 4.1, p. 198); one of his brothers was the physician Alexander Trallianus; another the architect and mathematician Anthemius; and Agathias mentions (Hist. v. p. 149, ed. 1660) that his other two brothers, Metrodoruis and Dioscorus, were both eminent in their several professions.

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.