(Παρθένιος), literary.
1. Of NICAEA, or according to others, of MYRLEA, but more probably of the former, since both Suidas (s. v. Νέστωρ) and Stephanus Byzantinus (s. v. Νίκαια) make him a native of that town, and the ancient grammarians generally speak of him as the Nicaean. He was the son of Heracleides and Eudoranor, as Hermippus stated, of Tetha; and Suidas further relates that he was taken prisoner by Cinna, in the Mithridatic war, was afterwards manumitted on account of his learning, and lived to the reign of Tiberius. The accuracy of this statement has been called in question, since there were seventy-seven years from the death of Mithridates to the accession of Tiberius; but if Parthenius was taken prisoner in his childhood, he might have been about eighty at the death of Augustus.