person
Aristarchus
also: Aristarchus of Samothrace
Aristarchus of Samothrace (2nd c. BC), head of the Library of Alexandria and the great Homeric critic, who marked spurious lines with obeli; Seneca dismisses his minute textual fussing.
Reading notes
- Moral Letters to Lucilius §88.39 Aristarchus
Aristarchus of Samothrace, the great Alexandrian Homeric critic who marked suspect verses with the obelos; emblem of textual fussiness.