Hypsicrates

• a grammarian, Gell. 16, 12.

(Ὑψικράτης).

1. An historical writer, who wrote an account of Phoenicia in the Phoenician language, which was translated into Greek by a man named Ἄσιτος, or Λαῖτος. (Tatian. Orat. ad Gent. 58; Euseb. Praep. Evang. x. p. 289.)

2. An historical writer, a native of Amisus. He is mentioned by Lucian (Macrob. 22) as having lived to the age of ninety-two, and been distinguished for his learning. It is perhaps this writer whom Strabo quotes (vii. p. 479, xi. p. 769).

3. A writer Περὶ Πινάκων, mentioned by Diogenes Laertius (7.188).

4. A Roman grammarian, a contemporary of M. Terentius Varro. He is mentioned by Varro (de Ling. Lat. 5.88), by Stephanus (s. v. Αἰφίοφ), and Gellius (16.12), who speaks of him as having written libros sane nobiles super his quae a Graecis accepta sunt. [C.P.M]