a general of Samos, who endeavoured to betray his country, &c.—A flatterer at Athens.—A tragic poet of Athens, disciple to Thespis. He was the first who introduced a female character on the stage.

PHRYNIS was a musician of Mitylene. He was the first who obtained a musical prize at the Panathenaia at Athens. He added two strings to the lyre, which had always been used with seven by all his predecessors. He flourished about 438 years before the Christian era. We are told that he was originally a cook at the house of Hiero king of Sicily.—There was another of the same name, a writer in the reign of Commodus, who made a collection, in 56 books, of phrases and sentences from the best Greek authors, &c.