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                    <TEI xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0"><text xml:base="urn:cts:pdlrefwk:viaf88890045.003.perseus-eng1"><body xml:lang="eng" n="urn:cts:pdlrefwk:viaf88890045.003.perseus-eng1"><div type="textpart" subtype="alphabetic_letter" n="E"><div type="textpart" subtype="entry" xml:id="epaphroditus-m-mettius-bio-1" n="epaphroditus_m_mettius_1"><head><label><persName xml:lang="la"><addName full="yes">Epaphrodi'tus</addName>, <forename full="yes">M.</forename><surname full="yes">Me'ttius</surname></persName></label></head><p>of Chaeroneia, a Greek grammarian. He was a disciple of Archias of Alexandria, and became
      the slave and afterwards the freedman of Modestus, the prefect of Egypt, whose son Pitelinus
      had been educated by Epaphroditus. After having obtained his liberty, he went to Rome, where
      he resided in the reign of Nero and down to the time of Nerva, and enjoyed a very high
      reputation for his learning. He was extremely fond of books, and is said to have collected a
      library of 30,000 valuable books. He died of dropsy at the age of seventy-five. Suidas (<hi rend="ital">s. v.</hi>
      <foreign xml:lang="grc">Ἐπαφρόδιτος</foreign>), from whom this account is derived, does
      not specify any work of our grammarian, but concludes his article by merely saying that he
      left behind him many good works. We know, however, from other sources, the titles of some
      grammatical works and commentaries : for example, on Homer's <title>Iliad</title> and
       <title>Odyssey</title> (Steph. Byz. <hi rend="ital">s. v.</hi>
      <foreign xml:lang="grc">Δωδώνη</foreign>; Etym. M. <hi rend="ital">s. vv.</hi>
      <foreign xml:lang="grc">ἄωροι</foreign>, <foreign xml:lang="grc">Κεφαληνία</foreign>),
      an <foreign xml:lang="grc">ἐξήγησις εἰς ῞ομηρον καὶ πίνδαρον</foreign> (Eudoc. p.
      128), a commentary on Hesiod's " Shield of Heracles," and on the <foreign xml:lang="grc">Αἴτια</foreign> of Callimachus, which is frequently referred to by Stephanus of Byzantium
      and the Scholiast on Aeschylus. He is also mentioned several times in the Venetian Scholia on
      the <title>Iliad</title>. (Comp. Visconti, <hi rend="ital">Iconograph. Grecq.</hi> i. p. 266.) </p><byline>[<ref target="author.L.S">L.S</ref>]</byline></div></div></body></text></TEI>
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