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Σκάμων

(Σκάμων), of Mytilene, wrote a work on inventions (Περὶ Εὑρημάτων), of which the first book is quoted by Athenaeus (xiv. pp. 630, b, 637, b; see also Clem. Al. Strom. i. p. 132; Euseb. Praep. Ev. 10.7; Vossius, de Hist. Graec. p. 495, ed. Westermann).

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.