A Dictionary of Greek and Roman biography and mythology

Smith, William

A Dictionary of Greek and Roman biography and mythology. William Smith, LLD, ed. 1890

64. GEOMETRA, the GEOMETER (Γεωμέτρης), called also PROTOTHRONUS (Πρωτόθρονος), a Greek writer, of whose date nothing is accurately known.

Combéfis, in the Notitia Scriptorum in the first vol. of his Bibliotheca Concionatoria, places him in the ninth or tenth century. Oudin places him in the eleventh century. He is quoted by Macarius Chrysocephalus [CHRYSOCEPHALUS MACARIUS], whom some critics place in the thirteenth, others in the fourteenlth century, in his Catetna in Matthaeum.