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Originally appearing in Volume V20, Page 869 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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Nicaea in See also:Bithynia, See also:Greek grammarian and poet. He was taken prisoner in the Mithradatic See also:War andcarried to See also:Rome (72 B.C.); subsequently he visited Neapolis, where he taught See also:Virgil Greek. Parthenius was a writer of elegies, especially dirges, and of See also:short epic poems. The pseudo-Virgilian Moretum and Ciris were imitated from his MUTTWTOS and M€ra,uopolavecs. His'Epcoruat zraOilµara is still extant, containing a collection of 36 love-stories which ended unhappily, taken from different historians and poets. As Parthenius generally quotes his authorities, these stories are valuable as affording See also:information on the Alexandrian poets and grammarians. See E. See also:Martini in Mythographi graeci, vol. ii. (1902, in Teubner See also:Series); poetical fragments in A. See also:Meineke, Analecta alexandrine (1853).

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