a follower of Aristothenes, 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 Mersennus, 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 erroneous.

in ancient poetry, a kind of foot composed of a short syllable and too long ones; as the word [avává]. It takes its name from the god Bacchus, because it frequently entered into the hymns composed in his honour. The Romans called it likewise anotrius, tripodius, falterus.