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Philo'ponus, Joannes （*)Iwa/nnhs o( *Filo/ponos), or JOANNES GRAMMA'TICUS (o( *Grammatiko/s), an Alexandrine scholar of great renown, which he deserved but little on account of his extreme dullness and want of good sense, was called *Filo/ponos because he was one of the most laborious and studious men of his age. He lived in the seventh century of our era; one of his writings, Physica, is dated the 10th of May, A. D. 617. He calls himself grammatiko/s, undonbtedly because he taught grammar in his native town, Alexandria, and would in earlier times have been called rhetor. He was a disciple of the philosopher Ammonius. Although his renown is more based upon the number of his learned productions, and the estimation in which they were held by his contemporaries, than upon the intrinsic value of those works, he is yet so strangely connected with one of the most important events of his time, though only through subsequent tradition, that his name is sure to be handed down to future genera