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

21. SOPHISTA. the SOPHIST, of Lycopolis in Egypt, son of Besarion or Didymus, lived in the reign of the emperor Constantine, and wrote a work now lost, described by Suidas as Ὑπόμνημα, Commentarius. (Suidas, s. v. Αἰγύπτιος.)