Poseidippus
3. An historian, who wrote a work respecting Cnidus, which contained several particulars respecting the Venus of Praxiteles. (Clem. Alex.
Protrept. pp. 16,17; Arnob. 6.13.)
He is also cited by Tzetzes, who concludes his quotation with an epigram by Poseidippus (
Chil. 7.144). From this and other circumstances it appears very probable that this historian was the same person as the epigrammatist. (Vossius,
de Hist. Graec. p.491, ed. Westermann).
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