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

(Μαρσύας), literary. Three historical writers of this name are mentioned by Saidas (s. v. Μαρσύας), but there seems no doubt that this arises either from an error of Suidas himself or a corruption of his text, and that there were in fact only two. (See Bernhardy, ad Suid. l.c. ; Droysen, Hellenism. vol. i. p. 679.)