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These Testimonia are ancient reports about Aristonicus of Alexandria, a grammarian of the Augustan age. They come from Strabo, who calls him a scholar of his own day and cites his work on the wanderings of Menelaus; from the Suda, which lists writings on the critical signs in Hesiod's Theogony, the Iliad and the Odyssey and six books on irregular nouns; and from Photius, who mentions a work on the Museum of Alexandria.
The testimonia supply what little is known of Aristonicus' life and output. They show that his interests went beyond Homer to Hesiod, grammar, Homeric geography and the institutions of Alexandrian learning, and they help place his surviving notes on Aristarchus' critical signs within a wider scholarly career.
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