BION of Smyrna, a bucolic poet, who flourished about the year B.C. 250. He was an admirable poet, according to the accounts of his disciple Moschus; and the few pieces of his which are extant tend to confirm that opinion. The latter years of his life were spent in Sicily, where he died by poison. The best editions of the poems of Bion, including those of Moschus, are by Fr. Jacobs, Gotha, 1795; Gilbert Wakefield, London, 1795; and that of J. F. Manso, Leipzig, 1807, which contains an elaborate dissertation on his life and poetry, and a German translation.