Lexicon of Greek Grammarians of Antiquity

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Daphitas
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Entry Version:

This is the English version of this article translated by Patrick Hogan. The original Italian version was written by Paola Ascheri and published on 04/04/2019.

Here is the Italian version of this entry.

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Biography:

Daphitas was a grammarian1 and sophist who was a native of Telmessus and whose dating wavers between the 3rd and 2nd c. BCE. The sources furnish different forms for his name too: Δαφίτας/Daphitas (Strab. 14, 1, 39 [= C 647], Cic. De f…

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Ascheri, Paola, “Daphitas”, in: Lexicon of Greek Grammarians of Antiquity. Consulted online on 28 March 2023 <http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/2451-9278_Daphitas>
First published online: 2015



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