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Abron or Habron (Greek Άβρων) was the name of a number of people in classical Greek history:

1. A son of the Attic orator Lycurgus.^[1]

2. The son of Callias, of the deme of Bate in Attica, who wrote on the festivals and sacrifices of the Greeks.^[2] He also wrote a work, περι παρωνύμων, which is frequently referred to by Stephanus of Byzantium (s.v. Αγάθη, Άργος, &c.) and other writers.

3. A Phrygian or Rhodian sophist and grammarian, pupil of Tryphon, and originally a slave, who taught at Rome under the first Caesars. He was presumably the same Habron who was the author of the treatise On the Pronoun.^[3]

4. A rich person at Argos, from whom the proverb Άβρωνος βίος ("The life of Abron"), which was applied to extravagant persons, is said to have been derived.^[4]

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[edit] Footnotes

^ Plut. Fit. dec. Orat. p. 843
^ Stephanus of Byzantium s. v. Βατή
^ Suda, s.v. Άβρων
^ Suda, s.v.

[edit] Other sources

Smith, William (1867), "Abron", in Smith, William, Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology, 1, Boston, MA, pp. 3, http://www.ancientlibrary.com/smith-bio/0012.html

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[0] Plut. Fit. dec. Orat. p. 843

[1] Stephanus of Byzantium s. v. Βατή

[2] Suda, s.v. Άβρων

[3] Suda, s.v.

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