Nymphodo'rus(Νυμφόδωρος), literary.
1. A Greek historian, of Amphipolis. The time at which he lived is unknown,
but he was the author of a work entitled
Νόμιμα Ἁσίας,
that is, the Laws or Customs of Asia, of which the third book is mentioned by Clemens of
Alexandria (
Strom. i. p. 139; comp.
Protrept. 19),
who quotes from it a passage concerning some Egyptian customs. In the second of the passages
here cited Clemens calls the work
Νόμιμα Βαρβαρικά,
but there can be no doubt that it was the same production as the
Νόμιμα Ἀσίας. Sometimes it is referred to under the brief title of
Νόμοι. (Schol.
ad Apollon. Rhod. 2.1010,
1031, 3.202, 4.1470.) The Scholiast on Sophocles (
Oed. Col. 337) quotes
the thirteenth book of this work; but the whole is lost, and only a very few fragments have
been transmitted to us.