Apollodo'rus
9. Of CYRENE, a Greek grammarian, who is often cited by other Greek grammarians, as by the Scholiast on Euripides (
Eur. Orest. 1485), in the Etymologicum M. (
s. v. βωμολόχοι), and by Suidas (
s. vv. ά̀ντικρυς,
βωμολόχος,
Νάνιον, and
βδελύσσω). From Athenaeus (xi. p. 487) it would seem that he wrote a work on drinking vessels (
ποτήρια), and if we may believe the authority of Natalis Comes (3.16-18, 9.5), he also wrote a work on the gods, but this may possibly be a confusion of Apollodorus of Cyrene, with the celebrated grammarian of Athens. (Heyne,
ad Apollod. pp. 1174, &c., 1167.)