(), either a native of Rhodes, of Massilia, or of
Galatia, was a Greek grammarian and rhetorician, who was surnamed
He wrote, according to Suidas (if we adopt the readings of Bernhardy, the last editor) Rhetores Graeci (vol. iii. p.
712, &c.).
Rhetores Graeci (iii. p. 712,
&c.
To these works Clinton (Fast. Hell. iii. p. 546) adds a great
chronological work (Chron. ad Ann. 989, 161, 562, &c.), though it is not quite
certain whether this is not the same work as the
He is frequently referred to as an authority in historical matters, though no historical
work is specified, so that those references may allude to any of the above-mentioned works.
(Euseb. Praep Evang 10.3, Chron. 1.13, p. 36;
Justin Mart. Paraen. ad Graec. p. 9.) His partiality to the Romans is
indicated by his surname; but in what manner he shewed this partiality is unknown, though it
may have been in a work mentoned by Plutarch (Quaest. Rom. 10, 76, comp.
De Is. et Os. 31), in which he compared the institutions of the Romans
with those of Pythagoras.
Suidas describes the grammarian and rhetorician Castor as a son-in-law of the (Galatian
king Deiotarus (whom, however, he calls a Roman senator!), who notwithstanding afterwards put
to death both Castor and his wife, because Castor had brought charges against him before
Caesar,--evidently alluding to the affair in which Cicero defended Deiotarus. The Castor whom
Suidas thus makes a relative of Deiotarus, appears to be the same as the Castor mentioned by
Strabo (pro
Deiot. 1, 10.) Now we have seen above that one of the works of Castor is referred to in
the Bibliotheca of Apollodorus, who died somewhere about De Hist. Graec. p. 202, ed. Westermann;
Orelli, Onomast. Tull. ii. p. 138, in both of which there is much
confusion about Castor.)