Cy'dias
2. One of the early Greek poets whom Plutarch (
de Fac. in Orb. Lun. p. 931e.) classes together with Mimnermus and Archilochus. Whether he is the same as the author of a song which was very popular at Athens in the time of Aristophanes, who however is called by the Scholiast (
ad Nub. 966) Cydides of Hermione, is uncertain. (Plat.
Charm. p. 155d.; Schneidewin,
Delectus Poet. Iamb. et Melic. Graec. p. 375, &c.; Bergk,
Poet. Lyr. Graeci, p. 837.)
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