Abron or Habron (Ancient Greek: ) 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, , which is frequently referred to by Stephanus of Byzantium (s.v. , , &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 ("The life of Abron"), which was applied to extravagant persons, is said to have been derived.^[4]

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