Deme'trius
25. Of MAGNESIA, a Greek grammarian, a contemporary of Cicero and Atticus. (
Cic. Att. 8.11,
4.11.)
Works
He had, in Cicero's recollection, sent Atticus a work of his on concord,
περί ὁμονοιας, which Cicero also was anxious to read.
A second work of his, which is often referred to, was of an historical and philological nature, and treated of poets and other authors who bore the same name. (
Περί ὁμωνύμων τοιητῶν καί συγγραφέων;
D. L. 1.38,
79,
112,
2.52,
56,
5.3,
75,
89,
6.79,
84,
88,
7.169,
185,
8.84,
9.15,
27,
35,
10.13; Plut.
Vit. X Oral. pp. 844, b., 847, a.,
Demosth. 15, 27, 28, 30; Harpocrat.
s. v. Ἰσαῖς, and many other passages;
Athen. 13.611; Dionys.
Deinarch. 1.)
This important work, to judge from what is quoted from it, contained the lives of the persons treated of, and a critical examination of their merits.
