2. Three epigrams are found in the Greek Anthology under the name of Sosipater; but this is merely through an error of Salmasius. The epigrams ought properly to be assigned to Dioscorides. (Fabric. Bibl. Graec. vol. iv. p. 495; Brunck, Anal. vol. i. p. 504; Jacobs, Anth. Graec. vol. i. p. 255, vol. vii. pp. 371, 406, vol. xii. p. 451, vol. xiii. p. 955.)