Didymus Chalcenterus

Didymus Chalcenterus in Wikipedia

Didymus Chalcenterus (Latin; Greek Δίδυμος χαλκέντερος Didymos chalkenteros, "Didymus bronze-guts"), ca. 63 BCE to 10 CE, was a Hellenistic Greek[1] scholar and grammarian who flourished in the time of Cicero and Augustus. Life The surname "bronze-guts" came from his indefatigable industry: he was said to have written so many books that he was una...

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Didymus in Harpers Dictionary of Classical Antiquities

(Δίδυμος). A famous grammarian, the son of a seller of fish at Alexandria, who was born in the consulship of Antonius and Cicero, B.C. 63, and flourished in the reign of Augustus. Macrobius calls him the greatest grammarian of his own or any other time (Saturn. v. 18, 9). According to Athenaeus (iv. 139), he published 3500 volumes, and had written ...

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