(Παλλάδας), the author of a large number of epigrams in the Greek Anthology, which some scholars consider the best in the collection, while others regard them as almost worthless: their real characteristic is a sort of elegant mediocrity. Almost all that we know of the poet is gathered from the epigrams themselves.
In the Vatican MS. he is called an Alexandrian. With regard to his time, he is mentioned by Tzetzes between Proclus and Agathias (Proleg. ad Lycoph. p. 285, Müller); but a more exact indication is furnished by one of his epigrams (No. 115), in which he speaks of Hypatia, the daughter of Theon, as still alive : now Hypatia was murdered in A.D. 415. [HYPATIA]. He was a grammarian; but at some period he renounced the profession, which he complains that his poverty had compelled him to follow: a quarrelsome wife afforded him another subject of bitter complaint in his verses (Epig. 41-46; comp. 9, 14).
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