Phi'lteas
(
*Filte/as), of Calacte, an historical writer, the author of a work in the Ionic dialect, entitled
Ναξιακά, of which the third book is quoted by Tzetzes (Schol.
ad Lycophr. 633).
He is also mentioned in a passage of Eustathius (
ad Hom. p. 1885. 51), where, however, the name is corrupted into
Philetas, and Eudocia, copying the error, places the
Ναξλακά among the works of Philetas of Cos (
Violar. p. 424). That Philteas is the true form of the name is clear from a passage in the
Etynologicum Mcla num (p. 795. 12), which, however, contains another error, in the words
ὁ καλούμενος ἱστορικός, where the Cod. Leid. has
ὁ κολούλαβαῖος, ἱστορικός, and the true reading is no doubt
ὁ Καλακταῖος, which should probably also be substituted for
είτε Καλλῖνος in the passage of Eustathius (see Meineke,
Anal. Alex. pp. 351-353).
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