Erycius of Cyzicus
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Erycius of Cyzicus was an Ancient Greek poet.[1][2]
He flourished in about the middle of the first century B.C.[3]
Works
One of his epigrams is on an Athenian woman who had in early life been captured at the sack of Athens by Sulla B.C. 80. Another is against a grammarian Parthenius of Phocaea.[3]
Sources
John William Mackail's book Select epigrams from the Greek anthology provides the following information about Erycius of Cyzicus:[3][4]
ERYCIUS of Cyzicus flourished about the middle of the first century B.C. One of his epigrams is on an Athenian woman who had in early life been captured at the sack of Athens by Sulla B.C. 80; another is against a grammarian Parthenius of Phocaea, possibly the same who was the master of Virgil. Of the fourteen epigrams in the Anthology under the name of Erycius one is headed "Erycius the Macedonian" and may be by a different author
