Harpocration
2. Of Mendes, is mentioned by Athenaeus (xiv. p. 648) as the author of a work on cakes (Περὶ Πλακούντων), but is otherwise unknown. Who the Harpocration is who is mentioned by the Venetian scholiast on the Iliad (1.453), as the teacher of Dius, is unknown.
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.