A Dictionary of Greek and Roman biography and mythology

30. CYNULCUS (ὁ Κυνουλκος), one of the speakers in the Deipnosophistae of Athenaeus (Epit. lib. i. p. 1d., iv. p. 156a., p. 159e., p. 160d., viii. p. 347d., &c., xv. p. 669b.e., ed. Casaub.). He is represented as a Cynic philosopher, a native of Megalopolis, and as laying aside his true name of Theodore for the epithet Cynulcus. Whether he was a real or imaginary personage is not known. The epithet Cynulcus, " one

whom the Cynics (κύνες) followed," was borne by other teachers of the Cynic philosophy, e. g. CARNEIUS.