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Lynceus

Λυγκεύς

(Λυγκεύς), of Samos, the disciple of Theophrastus, and the brother of the historian Duris, was a contemporary of Menander, and his rival in comic poetry. He survived Menander, upon whom he wrote a book. He seems to have been more distinguished as a grammarian and historian than as a comic poet; for, while only one of his comedies is mentioned (the Κένταυρος), we have the titles of the following works of his: -- Αἰγυπτιακά, Ἀπομνημονεύματα, Ἀποφσέγμαρα, Ἐπιστολαί δειπνητικαί, τέχνη ὀψωνητική. (Suid. s.v. Athen. 8.337d., et passim; Plut. Demetr. 27; Vossius, de Hist. Graec. p. 134, ed. Westermann; Meineke, Hist. Crit. Com. Graec. p. 458; Clinton, Fast. Hell. vol. iii. p. 498.)

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.