HERODIANUS, AELIUS, called 6 TEXvuK6s, Alexandrian grammarian. He settled at Rome, under the patronage of Mar cus Aurelius (161-18o), to whom he dedicated his treatise on prosody (Ka0oXcici in 21 books. Several epitomes of this work have been preserved. His 'EirtgEpLajzoi dealt with difficult words and peculiar forms in Homer. Of his many gram matical, treatises, only one has come down to us in a complete form (HEpi AEEEws), on exceptional or anomalous words. The best edition is by A. Lentz, Herodiani Technici reliquiae (1867 70) ; a supplementary volume is included in Uhling's Corpus gram maticorum Graecorum; for further bibliographical information sec W. Christ, Geschichte der griechischen Literatur (1898).