The historic gallery of portraits and paintings; or, Biographical review: (1807)
London, Vernor, Hood, and Sharpe · leaf 167
onage. This precautionhas, however, not prevented certain biographers fromsaying, that the author of the Idylls wrote epigramsagainst Hiero, tyrant of Sicily ; who, in revenge, puthim to death. This should be considered as applying toTheocritus of Chios. Of the poet of Syracuse we areignorant of… … THEOPHRASTUS. ThEophrastus was born at Eresa, a maritime cityin the island of Lesbos. His father, a fuller, namedMelanthus, devoted him to the muses, and placed himunder Alcippus, of the same city, as his first master.He afterwards went to Athens, and was received amongthe disciples of Plato.…
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