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Lycophron of Chalcis (fl. Third Century B.C.)

Lycophron (lī’kof-ron). A Greek poet and grammarian, native of Chalcis in Eubœa; lived in the third century B.C. He had a part in organizing the Alexandrine Library. He was classed as a tragic poet with the “Pleiad,” so called. One poem alone of his numerous compositions remains: ‘Alexandra,’ which contains, in 1,474 iambic verses, a prophecy of Cassandra relating to the fall of Troy and the fortunes of the heroes therein concerned.

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