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Philetas

3. Of Ephesus, a prose writer, from whom the scholiasts on Aristophanes quote a statement respecting the Sibyls, but who is otherwise unknown. (Schol. ad Aristoph. Pac. 1071, Av. 963; Suid. s. v. βάκις; Vossius, de Hist. Graec. p. 485, ed. Westernlan.)

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.