APOLLONIUS, surnamed o b oicoXor ("the crabbed"), a grammarian of Alexandria, who lived in the reigns of Hadrian and Antoninus Pius. He was the founder of scientific grammar and is styled grammaticorum princeps by Priscian, who based his own work on that of Apollonius. Four of his works are extant : On Syntax, ed. Bekker (1817) ; and three smaller treatises, on Pro nouns, Conjunctions, and Adverbs, ed. Schneider (1878).
Grammatici Graeci, i. in Teubner series; Egger, Apollonius Dyscole (1854).