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Cosmas

Κοσμᾶς

(Κοσμᾶς), a MONK, according to the title in Brunck's Analecta, but according to that in Stephen's edition of the Planudean Anthology, a mechanician.

Confusion with Cosmas Indicopleustes

Whether he is the same person as COSMAS INDICOPLEUSTES, or as the COSMAS of JERUSALEM, or whether he was different from both, is altogether uncertain.

Works

Epigram

is the author of one epigram in the Greek Anthology. (Anab. iii. p. 127; Jacobs, iv. p. 96.)

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.