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PHILETAS

This article appears in Volume V21, Page 376 of the Encyclopedia Britannica.

Encyclopedia Britannica - Main :: PER-PIG
PHILETAS of Cos, Alexandrian poet and critic, flourished in the second half of the 4th century B.C. He was tutor to the son of
Ptolemy
  I. of
Egypt
 , and also taught Theocritus and the grammarian Zenodotus. His thinness made him an object of ridicule; according to the comic poets, he carried lead in his shoes to keep himself from being blown away. Oter-study of Megarian dialectic subtleties is said to have shortened his
life
 . His elegies, chiefly of an amatory nature and singing the praises of his mistress Battis (or Bittis), were much admired by the Romans. He is frequently mentioned by Ovid and Propertius, the latter of whom imitated him and preferred him to his rival Callimachus, whose superior mythological
lore
  was more to the
taste
  of the Alexandrian critics. Philetas was also the author of a vocabulary called "AraKra, explaining the meanings of rare
and obscure words, including words peculiar to certain dialects; and of notes on
Homer
 , severely criticized by
Aristarchus
 .
Fragments edited by N. Bach (1828), and T. Bergk, Poetae lyrici graeci; see also E. W. Maass, De tribus Philetae carminibus (1895).


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