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This is the English version of this article translated by Patrick Hogan. The original Italian version was written by Valeria Bacigalupo and published on 02/04/2020.

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Grammarian:

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The grammarian Ion is mentioned only once in the Classical tradition, namely in a fragment of Varro¹ (fr. 46 Goetz-Schoell), who identifies him as the source of his knowledge of the existence of a letter of the alphabet named agma, which was used to i…