Hypsicrates
Ὑψικράτης
(Ὑψικράτης).
1. An historical writer, who wrote an account of Phoenicia in the Phoenician language, which was translated into Greek by a man named Ἄσιτος, or Λαῖτος. (Tatian. Orat. ad Gent. 58; Euseb. Praep. Evang. x. p. 289.)
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.