PARTHENIUS  , of See also:

• NICAEA, COUNCIL OF
• NICAEA, or NICE

Nicaea in See also:

• BITHYNIA (BtOvpta)

Bithynia, See also:

• GREEK
• GREEK, ETRUSCAN AND

Greek grammarian and poet . He was taken prisoner in the Mithradatic See also:

• WAR
• WAR (O. Eng. werre, Fr. guerre, of Teutonic origin; cf. O.H.G. werran, to confound)

War andcarried to See also:

• ROME
• ROME (Roma)

Rome (72 B.C.); subsequently he visited Neapolis, where he taught See also:

• VIRGIL (PUBLIUS VERGILIUS MARC)
• VIRGIL, POLYDORE (c. 1470-1555)

Virgil Greek . Parthenius was a writer of elegies, especially dirges, and of See also:

• SHORT, FRANCIS JOB (1857– )

short epic poems . The pseudo-Virgilian Moretum and Ciris were imitated from his MUTTWTOS and M€ra,uopolavecs . His'Epcoruat zraOilµara is still extant, containing a collection of 36 love-stories which ended unhappily, taken from different historians and poets . As Parthenius generally quotes his authorities, these stories are valuable as affording See also:

• INFORMATION (from Lat. informare, to give shape or form to, to represent, describe)

information on the Alexandrian poets and grammarians . See E . See also:

• MARTINI, GIOVANNI BATTISTA (1706–1784)
• MARTINI, SIMONE (1283-1344)

Martini in Mythographi graeci, vol. ii . (1902, in Teubner See also:

• SERIES (a Latin word from serere, to join)

Series); poetical fragments in A . See also:

• MEINEKE, JOHANN ALBRECHT FRIEDRICH AUGUST (1790-1870)

Meineke, Analecta alexandrine (1853) .