a famous Greek poet, was the nephew of Simonides, and the cotemporary and rival of Pindar. Both sung the victories of Hiero at the Bacchylides public games. Besides odes to athletic victors, he was author of Love Verses; Profodies; Dithyrambics; Hymns; Peans; Hyporchemes; Parthenia, or songs to be sung by a chorus of virgins at festivals. The chronology of Eusebius places the birth of Bacchylides in the 82d Olympiad, about 450 B. C.