(), an ancient Greek Iambic poet, a contemporary
and rival, as it seems, of Hipponax, though there is some doubt about the true reading of the
line in which Hipponax mentions him. The ancient writers quote several choliambic lines of
Herodes, who also wrote mimes in Iambic verse. (Welcker, Hipponact.
Fragm. pp. 87-89; Knocke, Auct. qui Choliambis usi sunt Graec.
Reliq. Fasc. 1.1842, 8vo.; Meineke and Lachmann, Choliambica Poesis
Graecorum, pp. 148-152, Berol. 1845, 8vo.)