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Satyrus

2. An architect who lived in Egypt under Ptolemy Philadelphus, and to whom some ascribed the transport to its site and the erection of one of the great obelisks. (Plin. Nat. 36.9. s. 14.)

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.