Aristophanes of Byzantium
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Aristophanes of Byzantium , c.257-180 BC, Greek scholar. He was librarian at Alexandria, edited various texts, and reputedly invented the Greek diacritical marks. Aristarchus of Samothrace was his pupil.
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