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(‘Viermännerkommentar’) Modern term for a commentary, presumably early Byzantine, on the ‘Iliad’, being a compilation of the four exegetes of Homer  Aristonicus [5],  Didymus [1], Aelius  Herodianus [1] and  Nicanor [12] (cf. the subscription of the individual books of the Iliad in the Cod. Venetus A). The four-man commentary provides information on the factual and linguistic interpretation of Homer, as well as on the decisions of textual criticism of the Alexandrians in the circle of  Aristarchus [4] of Samothrace, and forms (alongside the exegetical  scholia) t…