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This is the English version of this article translated by Patrick Hogan. The original Italian version was written by Giuseppe Ucciardello and first published on 15/02/2006.

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Biography:

Glaucus was a grammarian of the Alexandrian¹ age who may have lived before Aristophanes of Byzantium²; some consider him a Peripatetic³ of the early 3^rd c. BCE. He is mentioned explicitly in a long passage on the doctrine of accentuation⁴ with…