LATIN DICTIONARYLexicon Latīnum
Academy · Biography & Mythology

Phaennus

Φάεννος

(Φάεννος), an epigrammatic poet, who had a place in the Garland of Meleager (5.29), and two of whose epigrams are contained in the Greek Anthology. (Brunck, Anal. vol. i. p. 257; Jacobs, Anth. Grucc. vol. i. p. 190.) Nothing more is known of him.

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.