Callĭmăchus

, an historian and poet of Cyrene, son of Battus and Mesatma, and pupil to Her moc rates the grammarian. He had, in the age of Ptolemy Philadelphus, kept a school at Alexandria, and had A poll on i us of Rhodes among his pupils, whose ingratitude obliged Call i mach us to lash him severely in a satirical poem, under the name of Ibis . See: A poll on i us . The Ibis of Ovid is in imitation of this piece. He wrote a work, in 120 books, on famous men, besides treatises on birds; but of all his numerous compositions, only 31 epigrams, an elegy, and some hymns on the gods, are extant; the best editions of which are that of Ernestus, 2  vols. , 8vo, Leiden, 1761, and that of Vulcan i us, 12mo, Antwerp, 1584. Pro pert i us styled himself the Roman Call i mach us . The precise time of his death, as well as of his birth, is unknown. Pro pert i us , bk. 4 , poem 1, li. 65 .— Cicero , Tusculanæ Disputations , bk. 1 , ch. 84 .— Horace , bk. 2 , ltr. 2 , li. 109 .— Quintilian , bk. 10 , ch. 1 .――An A then i an general killed in the battle of Marathon. His body was found in an erect posture, all covered with wounds. Plutarch. ――A Colophon i an, who wrote the life of Homer. Plutarch.