CALLISTRATUS

callistratus, alexandrian grammarian, flourished at the beginning of the 2nd century b.c. he was one of the pupils of aristophanes of byzantium, who were distinctively called aristophanei. callistratus chiefly devoted himself to the elucidation of the greek poets; a few fragments of his commentaries have been preserved in the various collections of scholia and in athenaeus. he was also the author of a miscellaneous work called [greek: summikta] used by the later lexicographers, and of a treatise on courtesans (athenaeus iii. 125 b, xiii. 591 d). he is not to be confused with callistratus, the pupil and successor of isocrates and author of a history of heraclea in pontus. see r. schmidt, _de callistrato aristophaneo_, appended to a. nauck's _aristophanis byzantii fragmenta_ (1848); also c.w. muller, _fragmenta historicorum graecorum_, iv. p. 353 note.