SCYMNUS

A Greek geographer, from Chios, author of a lost description of the earth. There has been wrongly attributed to him a fragment of a description of the earth composed in iambic senarii, describing the coast of Europe from the Pillars of Hercules to Apollonia in Pontus. The unknown author lived in Bithynia, and dedicated his work, which is composed from good sources, but in a somewhat pedantic tone, to king Nicomedes, probably Nicomedes III (91-76 B.C.).