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Coriscus

Κόρσκος

(Κόρσκος), is mentioned, with Erastus, as a disciple of Plato, by Diogenes (3.31, s. 46), who also states, that Plato wrote a letter to Erastus and Coriscus. (3.36, s. 61.) They were both natives of Scepsis in the Troas. (Diog. l.c.; Strab. xiii. p.608.)

From William Smith (ed.), Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology. Text provided under a CC BY-SA license by Perseus Digital Library, http://www.perseus.tufts.edu, with funding from the National Endowment for the Humanities and Tufts University. Data accessed from https://github.com/PerseusDL/canonical-pdlrefwk/ on 17 October 2026.