a bucolic poet, native of Smyrna, lived at the same time with Ptolemy Philadelphus, whose reign reached from the fourth year of the 123rd Olympiad to the second year of the 123d. He was an incomparable poet, if we may believe the lamentations of his disciple Moschus. His few pieces which are left do not contradict this testimony. See MOSCHUS.

surnamed Borysthenites, because he was of Borysthenes, was a philosopher of a great deal of wit, but of very little religion: he flourished about the 120th Olympiad; but, falling sick, he, like other profane persons, became superstitious.