Parthenius or Parthenius the Grammarian
3. The GRAMMARIAN, was a pupil of the Alexandrine grammarian, Dionysius, who lived in the first century before Christ (Suidas, s. v. Διονύσιος). This Parthenius is mentioned by Athenaeus, who quotes a work of his, entitled Περὶ τῶν παρὰ τοῖς Ἰστορικοῖς Λέξεων ζητουμένων (Athen. 11.467c. p. 501a. xv. p. 680d. e.), and also by Eustathius (ad Il. xxiii. p. 1412, ad Od. xv. p. 567).
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.