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Theognostus

2. A Byzantine grammarian, who lived at the beginning of the ninth century after Christ. He was the author of a work on prosody, which is still extant in manuscript, addressed to the emperor Leo, the Armenian. He also wrote a history of the reign of Michael II., surnamed the Stammerer, the successor of Leo. (Villoison, Anecd. Graec. vol. ii. p. 127; Fabric. Bibl. Graec. vol. vi. p. 350.)

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