Petrichus
Πέτριχος
(Πέτριχος) the author of a Greek poem on venomous serpents, Ὀφιαχά, who lived in or before the first century after Christ. His poem, which is no longer extant, is quoted by Pliny (Plin. Nat. 20.96, 22.40) and the scholiast on Nicander's Theriaca (pp. 47, 50, ed. Ald.).
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.