Herodiānus in Harpers Dictionary of Classical Antiquities

Aelius. A celebrated grammarian, son of Apollonius Dyscolus, and a native of Alexandria, from which place he went to Rome, where he secured the favour of the emperor Marcus Aurelius, to whom he dedicated his work on prosody (Καθολικὴ Προσῳδία), in twentyone books. His reputation in antiquity was very great, so that Priscian styles him maximus auctor artis grammaticae. Of his numerous works, only fragmentary selections now exist, largely in citations in other grammarians. These are enumerated by Fabricius (Bibl. Graec. vi. pp. 278 foll.), and edited by Lentz, with indexes, in 2 vols. (Leipzig, 1870). See Lehrs, Herodiani Scripta Tria (Königsberg, 1848); Hiller, Quaestiones Herodianae (Bonn, 1866); Hilgard, Excerpta ex Libris Herodiani (Leipzig, 1887); and Stephan, De Herodiani Technici Dialectologia (Strassburg, 1889).

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