person
Alexander of Ephesus
Alexander
also: Alexander Lychnus, Alexander the Ephesian
A Greek geographer and didactic poet of the first century BC, nicknamed Lychnus. Cicero, returning his books to Atticus, judged him a careless man and no good poet, though not without use.
Reading notes
- Ad Atticum 2.22 §7 the books of Alexander
Alexander of Ephesus ("Alexander Lychnus"), a geographer and didactic poet whose verse works Atticus had lent Cicero. Cicero returns them with the verdict: a careless man and no good poet, though not useless.