Didymus Chalcenterus

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Didymus Chalcenterus or Didyme of Alexandria (towards -63, 10), grammairien of the school of Aristarque of Alexandria, contemporary of Auguste. He made himself very famous for his immense work, one called it for this reason calls Chalkenteros ( with the iron entrails), and by the almost infinite multitude of his works, which he carried, according to Athénée, until the number of 4.000, and which were, for the majority, of the comments on a very great number of Greek speakers and poets. None of these works arrived to us, because one is not sure that he is the author of a treaty on all the wood and marble species, which was in manuscript in the library of the college of the Jesuits, though he bears the name of Didyme of Alexandria. As for Scholies of Homère, that we also have under his name, they are not, and were extracted to him from various authors by another Didyme, quite posterior with that of Alexandria.

One however allots a treaty De Marmoribus and lignis to him , published with Milan in 1817, Greek-Latin, and Scholies on Homère, in the edition of Homère of Elzévir, Leyde, 1656, and reprinted with Leipzig in 1845, by Franz Ritter, and in 1855 by Schmidt.

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