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(Σοφόκλειος/Sophókleios; not Sophocles [3. 90¹]). Greek grammarian of the late 2nd cent. AD, known from his commentary on the Argonautiká of Apollonius [2] Rhodius, which he wrote following Theon [4] and Lucillus [1], presumably with a polemic bias against Eirenaeus [1]. S.' commentary had above all a mythographical/geographical character. Although S. is cited only twice by name in the surviving scholia, etymologies of place names under S.' name in Stephanus [7] of Byzantium can certainly be ascribed to him. Further reminiscences of his explanations…