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tary on that part of the second book of the Iliad
in which the forces of the Trojans are enumerated.
(Comp. Harpocrat. s. vv. 'Aapadrov-to, Svpywwvi1a;
Schol. ad Apollon. Rhod. i. 1123, 1165.) He is
sometimes simply called the Scepsian (Strab. ix.
pp. 438, 439, x. pp. 456, 472, 473, 489), and
sometimes simply Demetrius. (Strab. xii. pp. 551,
552, xiii. pp. 596, 600, 602.) The numerous other
passages in which Demetrius of Scepsis is mentioned or quoted, are collected by Westermann on
Vossius, De Ilist. Graec. p. 179, &c.
34. Of SMYRNA, a Greek rhetorician of uncertain date. (Diog. Laert. v. 84.)
35. Of SUNIuM, a Cynic philosopher, was
educated in the school of the sophist Rhodius,
and was an intimate friend of the physician Antiphilus. He is said to have travelled up the
Nile for the purpose of seeing the pyramids and
the statue of Memnon. (Lucian, Toxar. 27, adv.
Indoct. 19.) He appears, however, to have spent
some part of his life at Corinth, where he acquired
great celebrity as a-teacher of the Cynic philosophy,
and was a strong opponent of Apollonius of Tyana.
(Philostr. Vit. Apoll. iv. 25.) His life falls in the
reigns of Caligula, Claudius, Nero, Vespasian, and
Domitian. IHe was a frank and open-hearted man,
who did not scruple to censure even the most powerful when he thought that they deserved it. In
consequence of this, he was sent into exile, but he
preserved the same noble freedom and independence, notwithstanding his poverty and sufferings;
and on one occasion, when the emperor Vespasian
during a journey met him, Demetrius did not shew
the slightest symptom of respect. Vespasian was
indulgent enough to take no other vengeance except by calling him a dog. (Senec. de Benef vii.
1, 8; Suet. Vespas. 13; Dion Cass. lxvi. 13;
Tacit. Ann. xvi. 34, Hist. iv. 40; Lucian, de Saltat. 63.)
36. SYNCELLUS. See No. 17.
37. A SYRIAN, a Greek rhetorician, who lectured
on rhetoric at Athens. Cicero, during his stay
there in B. c. 79, was a very diligent pupil of his.
(Cic. Brut. 91.)
38. Of TARSUS, a poet who wrote Satyric
dramas. (Diog. Laert. v. 85.) The name TapotiKS, which Diogenes applies to him, is believed
by Casaubon (de Satyr. Poes. p. 153, &c. ed. Ramshorn) to refer to a peculiar kind of poetry rather
than to the native place of Demetrius. Another
Demetrius of Tarsus is introduced as a speaker in
Plutarch's work " de Oraculorum Defectu," where
he is described as returning home from Britain,
but nothing further is known about him.
39. A TRAGIC actor, mentioned by Hesychius (s. v. Amrnipros): he may be the same as
the M. Demetrius whom Acron (ad Horat. Sat. i.
10. 18, 79) describes as a " SpataTotroto's, i. e.
modulator, histrio, actor fabularum." Horace himself treats him with contempt, and calls him an
ape. Weichert (de IHorat. Obtrect. p. 283, &c.) supposes that he was only a person who lived at Rome
in the time of Horace and taught the art of scenic
declamation; while others consider him to be the
Sicilian, Demetrius Megas, who obtained the Roman franchise from J. Caesar through the influence
of Dolabella, and who is often mentioned under
the name of P. Cornelius.
40. Of TROEZENE, a Greek grammarian, who is
referred to by Athenaeus. (i. p. 29, iv. p. 139.)
He is probably the same as the one who, accord

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ing to Diogenes LaUrtius (viii. 74), wrote against
the sophists.
Besides these, there are some writers of the
name of Demetrius who cannot be identified with
any of those here mentioned, as neither their native places nor any surnames are mentioned by
which they might be recognized. For example,
Demetrius the author of " Pamphyliaca." (Tzetz.
ad Lycoph. 440), Demetrius, the author of "Argolica" (Clem. Alex. Protrept. p. 14), and Demetrius
the author of a work entitled 7replr 7TV /car-' A'ryvr"Tro. (Athen. xv. p. 680.) In Suidas (s. v. 'Iovasa),
where we read of an historian Democritus, we
have probably to read Demetrius. [L. S.]
DEME'TRIUS (Ammm'rptos), of BITHYNIA, an
epigrammatic poet, the author of two distiches on
the cow of Myron, in the Greek Anthology.
(Brunck, Anal. ii. 65; Jacobs, ii. 64.) It is not
known whether he was the same person as the
philosopher Demetrius of Bithynia, son of Diphilus, whom Diogenes Laertius mentions (v. 84).
Diogenes (v. 85) also mentions an epic poet named
Demetrius, three of whose verses he preserves; and
also a Demetrius of Tarsus, a satyric poet [see
above, No. 38], and another Demetrius, an iambic
poet, whom he calls 'rurpdc davpp. The epigrams of
Demetrius are very indifferent. [P. S.]
DEME'TRIUS ( Amnl^Tpios), an Athenian
COMIC POET of the old comedy. (Diog. Laert.
v. 85.) The fragments which are ascribed to
him contain allusions to events which took place
about the 92nd and 94th Olympiads (n. c. 412,
404); but there is another in which mention is
made of Seleucus and Agathocles. This would
bring the life of the author below the 118th
Olympiad, that is, upwards of 100 years later
than the periods suggested by the other fragments. The only explanation is that of Clinton
and Meineke, who suppose two Demetrii, the one
a poet of the old comedy, the other of the new.
That the later fragment belongs to the new comedy
is evident from its subject as well as from its date.
To the elder Demetrius must be assigned the:XueAla or ZucsEAol, which is quoted by Athenaeus
(iii. p. 108, f.), Aelian (N. A. xii. 10), Hesychius
(s.. 'Eirnpovs), and the Etymologicon Magnum
(s. v. "E/lpppoi). Other quotations, without the
mention of the play from which they are taken,
are made by Athenaeus (ii. p. 56, a.) and Stobaeus
(Florileg. ii. 1). The only fragment of the younger
Demetrius is that mentioned above, from the
'ApeoTra'yi-rs (Ath. ix. p. 405, e.), which fixes his
date, in Clinton's opinion, after 299 B. c. (Clinton,
F. H. sub ann.; Meineke, Frag. Com. Graec. i.
pp. 264-266, ii. pp. 876-878, iv. pp. 539,
540.) [P. S.]
DEME'TRIUS (A-q'-rptos), the name of several ancient physicians, who are often confounded
together, and whom it is not always easy to distinguish with certainty.
1. A native of Apamea in Bithynia, who was
a follower of Herophilus, and therefore lived probably in the third or second century B. c. He
is frequently quoted by Caelius Aurelianus, who
has preserved the titles of some of his works, and
some extracts from them. In some places he is
called "Attaleus" (De M/orb. Acut. iii. 18, p. 249;
De MAlorb. Chron. ii. 2, p. 367), but this is only a
mistake for " Apameus," as is proved by the same
passage being quoted in one place (p. 249) from
Demetrius Attaleus, and in another from Demetrius