Museus,

Museus, one of the ancient mythical poets, seers, and priests of the Greeks, is said to have been the son of Eumolpus and Selene, or, according to others, the son and pupil of Orpheus. He was the reputed author of a number of poems, oracles, purificatory verses, hymns, &c., of which we possess but a few fragments, and those of doubtful authenticity.—A later Museus, who flourished about the end of the 5th century, was the author of a beautiful little poem in Greek, entitled Hero and Leander (ed. by Aldus Manutius c. 1494; by Dilthey, Bonn, 1874). See HERO.