Philoxenus of Alexandria was an Ancient Greek linguist ("grammarian") who lived and worked in Alexandria.
Biography He was born and lived in Alexandria.
Career He studied morphology, etymology, lexicography, dialectology, metrics and Homeric criticism.
He taught in Rome in the second half of the 1st century BC. He took part in the polemics between analogists and anomalists, and influenced contemporaries, including Varro.
Bibliography He is the author of a number of notable books. He wrote a treatise on the Laconian dialect.
Some of his best known works were republished in 1976 by De Gruyter as The fragments of the grammarian Philoxenus ().
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