Lupercus
(
*Lou/perkos), of Berytus, a learned grammarian, lived a little time before the Roman emperor Claudius II. (reigned A. D. 268-270).
He was the author, according to Suidas, of the following works :-three books on the particle
ἂν, Περι τοῦ ταώς, Περὶ τῆς καριδος, Περὶ τοῦ παρὰ Πλάτωνι ἀλεκτρυόνος, a
Κτίσις of the Egyptian town Arsinoetus or Arsinoe,
Ἀττικαὶ λέξες, Τέχνη γραμματική, and thirteen books on the three genders, in which Suidas says that Lupercus surpasses Herodian in many points.