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Pisander

LARANDA (Ancient city) TURKEY
A Greek poet, born at Laranda, a city of Lycaonia, in Asia Minor, and who lived during the reign of Alexander Severus. He composed a long poem, entitled Heroikai Theogamiai, in which he sang of the nuptials of gods and heroes. The sixteenth book of this poem is cited, and Suidas calls the whole production a history varied after the epic manner. One of the interlocutors in the Saturnalia of Macrobius (v. 2) accuses Vergil of having translated from Pisander almost all the second book of the Aeneid, and particularly the story of the wooden horse.
Harry Thurston Peck. Harpers Dictionary of Classical Antiquities. New York. Harper and Brothers. 1898.