2. A Greek grammarian, a disciple of Agathocles, and apparently a contemporary of the critic Aristarchus. He wrote on the Homeric poems, and belonged to that class of critics who are termed the Chorizontes. (Eustath. ad Hom. pp. 1035, 1173; Schol. Venet. ad Il. 5.269; Schol. ad Sophocl. Philoct. 201; Schol. Eurip. Vat. in Troad. 823, in Orest. 1347; comp. Grauert in the vol. i. p. 204, &c.; Welcker, der Epische Cyclus, p. 251.)