Son of Polymnestos; a Chalkidian, from Euboia,[1] a student of Lakydes[2] and Prytanis among the philosophers, and, among the poets,[3] of Archeboulos the Theran poet,[4] whose beloved he is said have have become. He was born in the 126th Olympiad, when also Pyrrhos was defeated by the Romans;[5] and he was honey-pale in appearance, fleshy and weak-limbed. When Nik[a]ia,[6] the wife of Alexander the son of Krateros, ruler of Euboia,[7] took a liking to him, he became extremely successful and went to Antiochos [III] the Great, who ruled in Syria, and was appointed by him to head the public library there. And when he died there he was buried in Apameia, or, as some say, in Antioch. Here are his books of epic: Hesiod; Mopsopia or Orderless Tales, [so called] for it contains miscellaneous stories; and 'Mopsopia' because Attica was previously called Mopsopia after Mopsopia the daughter of Okeanos,[8] and the story extends to Attica.[9] Thousands: it has a preface directed against those who stole from him money which he had put on deposit, so that they might pay the penalty, albeit at length; then he brings together oracles that have been fulfilled over a thousand years; there are 5 books, and the fifth [group of a] thousand has a title [as follows?].
"On oracles, how they are fulfilled over a thousand years".[10]