MESOMEDES

A Greek lyric poet of Crete, who lived about A.D. 130, and was a freed-man of Hadrian. Three small poems of his have come down to us [Anthologia Groeca, xiv 63, xvi 323]. They are not unattractive, and the one on Nemesis is of peculiar interest, as its musical composition is indicated according to the ancient notation [Brunck's Analecta, iii 292; Bellermann, Hymnen des Dionysius und Mesomedes, pp. 13, 26].