Stephanus of Byzantium
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6th-century Byzantine grammarian and geographer
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(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, Stephanus or Stephen of Byzantium was a Byzantine grammarian and the author of an important geographical dictionary entitled Ethnica . Only meagre fragments of the dictionary survive, but the epitome is extant, compiled by one Hermolaus, not otherwise identified.