HERMESIANAX

of Colophon in Ionia; a, Greek elegiac poet, who lived in the time of Alexander the Great, about 330 B.C., and was a scholar and friend of Philetas. He composed erotic elegies in the style of those by his compatriot Antimachus. The three books containing his compositions he entitled Leontion, after his mistress. A fragment of ninety-eight lines of the third book has been preserved, in which love-stories of poets and wise men from Orpheus down to Philetas are treated in a rather unconnected manner, but not without spirit.