Lysis
3. A poet of the hilaroedic style, was the successor of Simus, the inventor of that species of poetry the composers of which were at first called Σιμῳδοί, from Simus, and afterwards Λυσιῳδοί and Μαγῳδοί, from Lysis and Magus. (Strab. xiv. p.648a.; Ath. xiv. p. 620d., iv. p. 182c.; Bode, Gesch. der Lyrisch. Dichtkunst, vol. ii. p. 469.)
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.