may be regarded as certain that Timaeus was better qualified for the
task of learned compilation than for historical research, and held no
distinguished place among the historians of Greece. His works have
perished, only a few fragments remaining (Lübker).

ZOILUS, a Greek rhetorician, native of Amphipolis in Macedonia, in the
time probably of Ptolemy Philadelphus (285-247 B.C.), who is said by
Vitruvius to have crucified him for his abuse of Homer. He won the name
of Homeromastix, “the scourge of Homer,” and was also known as κύων
ῥητορικός, “the dog of rhetoric,” on account of his biting sarcasm;
and his name (as in the case of the English Dennis) came to be used to
signify in general a carping and malicious critic. Suidas mentions two
works of his, written with the object of injuring or destroying the fame
of Homer--(1) _Nine Books against Homer_; and (2) _Censures on Homer_
(Pauly).

[The facts contained in the above short notices are taken chiefly
from Lübker’s _Reallexikon des classischen Alterthums_, and the
very copious and elaborate _Real-Encyclopädie der classischen
Alterthumswissenschaft_, edited by Pauly. I have here to acknowledge
the kindness of Dr. Wollseiffen, Gymnasialdirektor in Crefeld, in
placing at my disposal the library of the Crefeld Gymnasium, but for
which these biographical notes, which were put together at the
suggestion of Mr. Lang, could not have been compiled.
CREFELD, _31st July 1890_.]


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