Tryphon
2. An architect, of Alexandria, who flourished in the time of Demetrius Poliorcetes, and distinguished himself in the defence of Apollonia, by the invention of an ingenious plan of countermining. (Vitr. 10.22. s. 16.10, Schneider.)
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