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This is the English version of this article translated by Patrick Hogan. The original Italian version was written by Lara Pagani and first published on 20/02/2006.

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Biography:

Demetrius was a scholar and antiquarian from Scepsis in the Troad, and he had a wealthy and noble background, as Diogenes Laertius¹, who calls him a φιλόλογος (5, 84) among other things, informs us. Strabo² calls him a contemporary of Cra…