Demosthenes
2. A Bithynian, wrote a history of his native country, of which the tenth book is quoted by Stephanus of Byzantium. (s. vv. Κοσσός, Μαυσωωλοί; comp. s. vv. Τάρας, Ταρσός, Τευμησσός, Ἀλεξανδρεία, Ἀρτάκη; Etym. Mag. s. v. Ἠραία.) He further wrote an account of the foundations of towns (κτίσεις), which is likewise several times quoted by Stephanus. Euphorion wrote a poem against this historian under the title of Δημοσθένης, of which a fragment is still extant. (Bekker, Anecdot. p. 1383; comp. Meineke, de Euphorione, p 31.)
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.