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

45. HYRTACENUS, a native probably not of Hyrtacus or Artacina in Crete, but of Artace, near Cyzicus, on the Propontis.

He lived in the time of the emperor Andronicus the elder, and occupied at Constantinople the office of superintendent of the public teachers of rhetoric and belles lettres.