(), the author of thirty-nine epigrams in the
Greek Anthology (Brunck, Anal. 1.493; Jacobs, 1.244; 13.706, No. 142)
seems, from the internal evidence of his epigrams, to have lived in Egypt, about the time of
Ptolemy Euergetes.
His epigrams are chiefly upon the great men of antiquity, especially the poets. One of
them (No. 35) would seem, from its title in the Vatican MS.,