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Cos, Alexandrian poet and critic, flourished in the second See also:half of the 4th See also:century B.C. He was See also:tutor to the son of See also:Ptolemy I. of See also:Egypt, and also taught See also:Theocritus and the grammarian See also:Zenodotus. His thinness made him an See also:object of ridicule; according to the comic poets, he carried See also:lead in his shoes to keep himself from being blown away. Oter-study of Megarian See also:dialectic subtleties is said to have shortened his See also:life. His elegies, chiefly of an amatory nature and singing the praises of his See also:mistress Battis (or Bittis), were much admired by the See also:Romans. He is frequently mentioned by See also:Ovid and See also:Propertius, the latter of whom imitated him and preferred him to his See also:rival See also:Callimachus, whose See also:superior mythological See also:lore was more to the See also:taste of the Alexandrian critics. Philetas was also the author of a vocabulary called "AraKra, explaining the meanings of rare and obscure words, including words See also:peculiar to certain dialects; and of notes on See also:Homer, severely criticized by See also:Aristarchus. Fragments edited by N. See also:Bach (1828), and T. See also:Bergk, Poetae lyrici graeci; see also E. W. Maass, De tribus Philetae carminibus (1895).

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