A Dictionary of Greek and Roman biography and mythology
William Smith, Ed.

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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.)