Nica'nor
3. A celebrated grammarian, who lived during the reign of the emperor Hadrian, A. D. 127.
According to Suidas
s. v.) he was of Alexandria; according to Stephanus Byzantinus (s. v.
Ἱεράπολις) he was of Hierapolis. His labours were principally directed to punctuation, hence he received the ludicrous name of
Ζτιψματίας Suidas,
l.c.), and, from his having devoted much of his attention to the elucidation of Homer's writings, through neans of punctuation, he is called by Stephanus
I. c.)
ὁ νέος Ὅμηρος.
He wrote, also, on the punctuation of Callimachus, and a work
Περὶ καθόλου στιψμῆς.
He is copiously quoted in the
Scholia Marciana on Homer. (Fabric.
Bibl. Graec. vol. i. pp. 368, 517, vol. iii. p. 823, vol. vi. p. 345.)
