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Aristophanes of Byzantium
 
 
(r´´stnz, bzn´shm, –tm) (KEY) , c.257–180 B.C., Greek scholar. He was librarian at Alexandria, edited various texts, and reputedly invented the Greek diacritical marks. Aristarchus of Samothrace was his pupil.
 
 
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