Mesomedes

(Μεσομήδης), a lyric and epigrammatic poet under Hadrian and the Antonines, was a native of Crete, and a freedman of Hadrian, whose favourite Antinous he celebrated in a poem. (Suid. s. v.) A salary, which he had received from Hadrian, was diminished by Antoninus Pius. (Capit. Ant. Pius, 7.) Three poems of his are preserved in the Greek Anthology. (Brunck, Anal. vol. ii. p. 292; Jacobs, Anth. Graec. vol. iii. p. 6, vol. xiii. p. 917; Fabric. Bibl. Graec. vol. ii. pp. 130, 131.) [P.S]

(Μεσομήδης). A Greek lyric poet of Crete, who lived about A.D. 130, and was a freedman of Hadrian. Three small poems of his have come down to us (Anthologia Graeca, xiv. 63; xvi. 323). They are not unattractive, and the one on Nemesis is of peculiar interest, as its musical composition is indicated according to the ancient notation. See Brunck's Analecta, iii. 292; Bellermann, Hymnen des Dionysius und Mesomedes, pp. 13, 26.