Scymnus
(
Σκύμνος). A native of Chios, who wrote a
Periegesis, or description of the earth, in prose, and which is therefore
different from a Periegesis in iambic trimeter which has come down to us, and which describes
the coast of Europe from the Pillars of Hercules to Apollonia in Pontus. This latter work is
dedicated to King Nicomedes, probably Nicomedes III. (B.C. 91-96) of Bithynia. It is edited by
Meineke
(Berlin, 1846); and by C. Müller in the
Geographi
Graeci Minores (Paris, 1841).