8. The name of various EPIGRAMMATIC poets.
Under the name of Asclepiades the Greek Anthology contains upwards of forty epigrams; but it is more than probable they are not all the productions of the same poet.
Some of them undoubtedly belong to Asclepiades of Samos, who is mentioned as a teacher of Theocritus.
He is said to have written bucolic poetry. (Schol. ad Theocr. 7.21,
40; Meleager, 1.46; Theocrit. 7.40; Moschus, 3.96.)
Other epigrams under the name Aslepiades may be the productions of Asclepiades of Adramyttium, who lived at an earlier time.
Jacobs, ad Anthol. xiii. p. 864.