Tolynus
(
*To/lunos), of Megara, is supposed to have been a comic poet of the Old Comedy, before Cratinus, and about contemporary with Ecphantides, on the authority of a passage in the
Etymologicum Magnum, which seems to ascribe to him the invention of the metre afterwards called the Cratinean. (
Etym. Mag. p. 761. 47,
Τολύνειον τὸ καλούμενον Κρατίνειον μέτρον, κ. τ. λ.) It appears, however, very probable that
Τολύνειον, in this passage, is only a false reading for
Τελλήνειον, and that the reference is to the lyric poet and musician Tellen. (Meineke,
Hist. Crit. Com. Graec. pp. 38, 39.)
[
P.S]