Moschus

, a Phœnician who wrote the history of his country in his own mother tongue.――A philosopher of Sidon. He is supposed to be the founder of anatomical philosophy. Strabo. ――A Greek Bucolic poet in the age of Ptolemy Philadelphus. The sweetne and elegance of his eclogues, which are still extant, make the world regret the lo of poetical pieces no ways inferior to the productions of Theocritus. The best editions of Moschus with Bion is that of Heskin, 8vo, Oxford, 1748.――A Greek rhetorician of Pergamus in the age of Horace, defended by Torquatus in an accusation of having poisoned some of his friends. Horace , bk. 1 , ltr. 5 , li. 9 .