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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 05/09/2006.

Here is the Italian version of this entry.

Grammarian:

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Biography:

Seleucus was a Greek grammarian and a sympotic companion of the emperor Tiberius¹ (PIR 3, 193 n. 254), who later forced him to commit suicide according to Suetonius’² account (Tib. 56).

By unanimous scholarly consensus it is extremely probable…