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

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According to the testimony of a Homeric¹ scholion (Sch. ex. [vel Porph.] Il. 9, 453c), Dius was a student of a Harpocration² who was the author of a ὐπόμνημα on the ninth book of the Iliad³, or on the entire poem according to the conjecture of Heyne (ap. Erbse 1969-1988, 2, p. 496, app. a…