EUPHORION  ,

Greek poet and grammarian, born at Chalcis in Euboea about 275 B.C . He spent much of his life in Athens, where he amassed great wealth . About 221 he was invited by Antiochus the Great to the court of Syria . He assisted in the formation of the royal library at Antioch, of which he held the post of librarian till his death . He wrote mythological epics, amatory elegies, epigrams and a satirical poem ('Apal, " curses ") after the manner of the Ibis of Callimachus . Prose works on antiquities and history are also attributed to him . Like Lycophron, he was fond of using archaic and obsolete expressions, and the erudite character of his allusions rendered his language very obscure . His elegies were highly esteemed by the Romans• they were imitated or translated by Cornelius Gallus and alsc by the emperor Tiberius . Fragments in Meineke, " De Euphorionis Chalcidensis vita et scriptis," in his Analecta Alexandrina (1843); for a recently discovered fragment of about 30 lines see Berliner Klassikertexte, v . 1 (1907) .