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

3. A poet. from whose poem upon the Jews (ἐν τῷ περὶ Ἰουδαίων) same verses respecting the city of Sichem are quoted by Eusebius. (Praep. Ev. 9.22.)

According to a scholiast on Ovid (Ib. 407) there was a poet of this name who was cruelly put to death by the tyrant Mnesarchus. and to whose fate Ovid alludes (l.c.); but this is evidently mere guess-work. (See Fabric. Bibl. Graec. vol. ii. p. 324, vol. x. p. 516.)