Aristarchus, A Grammarian vnder Ptolomie, surnamed Philometer, whose sonne he instructed. Hee wrote aboue 1000. woorkes, and dyed, being of the age of 72. yeeres, killing himself with ouermuch abstmence to cure % dropsieOf him Ælianus writeth, that hee was of so eract indgement, that no verse was esteemed to be Homers, but thathe had allowed.
Lewis and Short: Latin dictionary
Ăristarchus, i, m., = *)ari/starxos, a distinguisled critic of Alexandria, who animadverted with special severity upon the poetry of Homer, and contended that many of his verses were spurious, Cic. Fam. 3, 11; Ov. P. 3, 9, 24.—Appel. for any critic, Cic. Pis. 30: orationes meae, quarum tu Aristarchus es, id. Att. 1, 14.—Hence, Aristar-chēi, ōrum, m., the disciples, followers of Aristarchus, i. e. severe critics, Varr. L. L. 8, 63 Müll.