Tolynus
Τόλυνος
(Τόλυνος), of Megara, is supposed to have been a comic poet of the Old Comedy, before Cratinus, and about contemporary with Ecphantides, on the authority of a passage in the Etymologicum Magnum, which seems to ascribe to him the invention of the metre afterwards called the Cratinean. (Etym. Mag. p. 761. 47, Τολύνειον τὸ καλούμενον Κρατίνειον μέτρον, κ. τ. λ.) It appears, however, very probable that Τολύνειον, in this passage, is only a false reading for Τελλήνειον, and that the reference is to the lyric poet and musician Tellen. (Meineke, Hist. Crit. Com. Graec. pp. 38, 39.)
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.