Herodas

Herodas, or HERONDAS, a Greek poet of the 3d century B.C., probably from the island of Cos, of whose Mimiambi (mainly scenes of Greek life in dialogue) only small fragments were known till some 700 verses from eight different poems were recovered from an Egyptian MS. in the British Museum and published by Kenyon (1891). They have since been edited by Bücheler, Crusius, and Meister.