A Dictionary of Greek and Roman biography and mythology

3. Of Byzantium, an historian (Plut. Parall. Min. 100.36), was probably the author of Μιλήτου κτίσις, the fourth book of which is cited by the Scholiast on Homer (Hom. Il. 10.274). He is perhaps the same person as the Zopyrus mentioned by Marcellinus (Vit. Thuc. § 32). Stobaeus quotes two verses from Zopyrus (Floril. 63.8), and likewise makes an extract from a work entitled Theseis, also by Zopyrus, but it is impossible to determine whether this Zopyrus was the same as the Byzantine, or whether Stobaeus quotes from the same or from two different persons. There are some other persons of the name. (See Vossius, de Hist. Graec. p. 511, ed. Westermanin.)