Callistrătus

, an A then i an, appointed general with Timotheus and Chabrias against Lacedæmon. Diodorus , bk. 15 .――An orator of Aphidna, in the time of Epa min on das, the most eloquent of his age.――An A then i an orator with whom Demosthenes made an intimate acquaintance after he had heard him plead. Xenophon. ――A Greek historian praised by Dionysius of Halicarna us .――A comic poet, rival of Aris toph anes.――A statuary. Pliny , bk. 34 , ch. 8 .――A secretary of Mithridates. Plutarch , Lucullus .――A grammarian, who made the alphabet of the Samians consist of 24 letters. Some suppose that he wrote a treatise on courtesans.