a Greek grammarian, born at Naucratis in Egypt in the 3rd century, one of the most learned men of his time. Of all his works we have none extant but his Deipnosophis, i.e. the sophsits at table; there is an infinity of facts and quotations in this work which render it very agreeable to admirers of antiquity.

There was also a mathematician of this name, who wrote a treatise on mechanics, which is inserted in the works of the ancient mathematicians, printed at Paris in 1693, in folio, in Greek and Latin.