(), a lyric and epigrammatic poet under Hadrian
and the Antonines, was a native of Crete, and a freedman of Hadrian, whose favourite Antinous
he celebrated in a poem. (Suid. s. v.) A salary, which he had received
from Hadrian, was diminished by Antoninus Pius. (Capit. Ant. Pius, 7.)
Three poems of his are preserved in the Greek Anthology. (Brunck, Anal.
vol. ii. p. 292; Jacobs, Anth. Graec. vol. iii. p. 6, vol. xiii. p. 917;
Fabric. Bibl. Graec. vol. ii. pp. 130, 131.)