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Socrates

4. An epigrammatic poet, of whom nothing is known beyond the mention of his name by Diogenes Laertius (l.c.). There is a single epigram in the Greek Anthology, among the Arithmetical Problems, under the name of Socrates. (Anth. Pal. 14.1; Brunck. Anal. vol. ii. p. 477; Jacobs, Anth. Graec., vol. iii. p. 181, Comm. vol. ii. pt. iii. p. 335.)

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.