Ancient Greek & Roman

Herodicus of Babylon

2nd century BC (Paton’s date)


Herodicus of Babylon was a Greek grammarian of the second century BC, a follower of Crates of Mallos and an opponent of the school of Aristarchus. The one epigram preserved under his name is a satirical attack on the Aristarchans.

This archive carries the 1 epigram ascribed to the poet in the fifth volume of W. R. Paton's prose translation (Loeb, 1918): Book XVI: 19a.

  1. Book XVI, 19a

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