H. was an antiquarian and grammarian in the second half of the 1st cent. AD (main source for the biography: Suda s.v. Φίλων Βύβλιος, φ 447, where the text, however, is problematic). His original name was Phílōn, the ethnicon Býblios (after the town Byblos in Phoenicia), the praenomen H. perhaps taken over from Herennius Severus Plin. Ep. 4,28 [4]. He was the teacher of Hermippus of Berytus.
(FGrH 790): Historical and antiquarian works: 1) The ‘Phoenician History’ …
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Fornaro, Sotera (Sassari),
“Herennius Philo”, in:
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