Damon
2. Of Byzantium, wrote a work on his native place, from which an extract is quoted by Aelian. (V. H. 3.14; comp. Athen. 10.442.) Pliny (Plin. Nat. 7.2) speaks of a Damon who seems to have written on Aethiopia.
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.