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Originally appearing in Volume V21, Page 346 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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Greek elegiac poet, probably flourished about the See also:time of See also:Alexander the See also:Great. His extant fragments show resemblances in See also:style and See also:language to See also:Philetas, See also:Callimachus and See also:Hermesianax. He was the author of a poem on paederasty. A lengthy fragment in See also:Stobaeus (Florilegium, 64) describesthe love of See also:Orpheus for the youthful See also:Calais, son of See also:Boreas and his subsequent See also:death at the hands of the Thracian See also:women. It is one of the best extant specimens of Greek elegiac See also:poetry. See N. See also:Bach, Philetae, Hermesianactis, et Phanodis reliquiae (1829) ; L. See also:Preller, Ausgewahlte Aufsatze aus dem Gebiete der classischen Alterlhumswissenschaft (1864).

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