A nacre on

, a famous lyric poet of Teos in Ionia, highly favoured by Poly crates and Hipparch us son of Pis i stratus. He was of a lascivious and intemperate disposition, much given to drinking, and deeply enamoured of a youth called Bathyllus. His odes are still extant, and the uncommon sweetne and elegance of his poetry have been the admiration of every age and country. He lived to his 85th year, and, after every exce of pleasure and debauchery, choked himself with a grape stone and expired. Plato says that he was descended from an illustrious family, and that Codrus, the last king of Athens, was one of his progenitors. His statue was placed in the citadel of Athens, representing him as an old drunken man, singing, with every mark of di ipation and intemperance. A nacre on flourished 532 B.C. All that he wrote is not extant; his odes were first published by H. Stephens, with an elegant translation. The best editions of A nacre on are that of Maittaire, 4to, London, 1725, of which only 100 copies were printed, and the very correct one of Barnes, 12mo, Cambridge, 1721, to which may be added that of Brunck, 12mo, Str as bourg, 1778. Pausanias , bk. 1 , chs. 2, 25.— Strabo , bk. 14 .— Ælian , Varia Hist or i a , bk. 9 , ch. 4 .— Cicero , Tusculanæ Dis put at i ones , bk. 4 , ch. 33 .— Horace , epode 14, li. 20 .— Pliny , bk. 7 , ch. 7 .— Hero dot us , bk. 3 , ch. 121 .