BACCHIUS, a follower of Aristoxenus, supposed
by Fabricius to have been tutor to the emperor Marcus
Antoninus, and consequently to have lived about A.C.
140. He wrote in Greek a very short introduction to
music in dialogue, which, with a Latin translation
thereof, Meibomius has published. It seems it was
first published in the original by Merfennus, in his
Commentary on the first six chapters of Genesis; and
that afterwards he published a translation of it in French,
which Meibomius in the preface to his edition of the
ancient musical authors, censures as being grossly er-
roneous.