of the early historians from whom the later Roman grammarians imagined that Homer derived materials for the Iliad and Odyssey. He is said to have followed Idomeneus, king of Crete, in the Trojan war; and the MS. of his work, written in Phoenician characters, was found in his tomb at Gnosiss in the reign of Nero, and translated into Greek by order of that prince. A Latin version of the first five books has come down to us; but this work is generally regarded as a forgery. The best editions are those of Perizonius and Dederich.